Criteria for the design of tissue-mimicking phantoms for the standardization of biophotonic instrumentation

L Hacker, H Wabnitz, A Pifferi, TJ Pfefer… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
A lack of accepted standards and standardized phantoms suitable for the technical
validation of biophotonic instrumentation hinders the reliability and reproducibility of its …

Review of consensus test methods in medical imaging and current practices in photoacoustic image quality assessment

J Palma-Chavez, TJ Pfefer, A Agrawal… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a powerful emerging technology with broad
clinical applications, but consensus test methods are needed to standardize performance …

Temporal evaluation of efficacy and quality of tissue repair upon laser‐activated sealing

D Ghosh, CM Salinas, S Pallod… - Bioengineering & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Injuries caused by surgical incisions or traumatic lacerations compromise the structural and
functional integrity of skin. Immediate approximation and robust repair of skin are critical to …

A copolymer-in-oil tissue-mimicking material with tuneable acoustic and optical characteristics for photoacoustic imaging phantoms

L Hacker, J Joseph, AM Ivory, MO Saed… - … on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) standardisation demands a stable, highly reproducible physical
phantom to enable routine quality control and robust performance evaluation. To address …

Photoacoustic imaging phantoms for assessment of object detectability and boundary buildup artifacts

J Palma-Chavez, KA Wear, Y Mantri, JV Jokerst… - Photoacoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
Standardized phantoms and test methods are needed to accelerate clinical translation of
emerging photoacoustic imaging (PAI) devices. Evaluating object detectability in PAI is …

Resonant microbubble as a microfluidic stage for all-optical photoacoustic sensing

G Frigenti, L Cavigli, A Fernández-Bienes, F Ratto… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We implement a whispering-gallery-mode microbubble resonator (MBR) as a multifunctional
component for all-optical photoacoustic inspection of materials in a platform combining …

Utilizing optical phantoms for biomedical-optics technology: Recent advances and challenges

IH Kwon, HS Kim, DY Kim, HJ Lee… - Current Optics and …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Optical phantoms are essential in optical imaging and measurement instruments for
performance evaluation, calibration, and quality control. They enable precise measurement …

IPASC: a community-driven consensus-based initiative towards standardisation in photoacoustic imaging

SE Bohndiek, B Cox, J Joseph, J Gröhl… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photoacoustic Imaging (PAI) is a rapidly emerging imaging modality that is based on the
conversion from light into ultrasound. One of the most promising applications of PAI is in …

Tutorial on methods for estimation of optical absorption and scattering properties of tissue

R Tao, J Gröhl, L Hacker, A Pifferi… - Journal of …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance The estimation of tissue optical properties using diffuse optics has found a
range of applications in disease detection, therapy monitoring, and general health care …

Photoacoustic method for measuring the elasticity of polydimethylsiloxane at various mixing ratios

TW Shen, MC Tsai, TM Chen, CC Chang - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Measuring elasticity without physical contact is challenging, as current methods often
require deconstruction of the test sample. This study addresses this challenge by proposing …