Photoacoustic imaging: contrast agents and their biomedical applications

Q Fu, R Zhu, J Song, H Yang, X Chen - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging as a fast‐developing imaging technique has great potential in
biomedical and clinical applications. It is a noninvasive imaging modality that depends on …

Recent advances in photoacoustic contrast agents for in vivo imaging

PK Upputuri, M Pramanik - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a noninvasive hybrid imaging modality offering rich optical
contrast and high depth‐to‐resolution ratio deep‐tissue imaging. Endogenous …

Photoacoustic imaging in the second near-infrared window: a review

PK Upputuri, M Pramanik - Journal of biomedical optics, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is an emerging medical imaging modality that combines optical
excitation and ultrasound detection. Because ultrasound scatters much less than light in …

Overview of ultrasound detection technologies for photoacoustic imaging

R Manwar, K Kratkiewicz, K Avanaki - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ultrasound detection is one of the major components of photoacoustic imaging systems.
Advancement in ultrasound transducer technology has a significant impact on the translation …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for image-guided therapy, surgery, and drug delivery using photoacoustic imaging

C Moore, JV Jokerst - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Photoacoustic imaging is a rapidly maturing imaging modality in biological research and
medicine. This modality uses the photoacoustic effect (“light in, sound out”) to combine the …

[HTML][HTML] Photoacoustic imaging for monitoring of stroke diseases: A review

X Yang, YH Chen, F Xia, M Sawan - Photoacoustics, 2021 - Elsevier
Stroke is the leading cause of death and disability after ischemic heart disease. However,
there is lacking a non-invasive long-time monitoring technique for stroke diagnosis and …

Optoacoustic imaging of the skin

XL Deán‐Ben, D Razansky - Experimental dermatology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Optoacoustic (OA, photoacoustic) imaging capitalizes on the synergistic combination of light
excitation and ultrasound detection to empower biological and clinical investigations with …

Shortwave-infrared meso-patterned imaging enables label-free mapping of tissue water and lipid content

Y Zhao, A Pilvar, A Tank, H Peterson, J Jiang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Water and lipids are key participants in many biological processes, but there are few non-
invasive methods that provide quantification of these components in vivo, and none that can …

[HTML][HTML] New contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging and theranostics: Recent 5-year overview on phthalocyanine/naphthalocyanine-based nanoparticles

EY Park, D Oh, S Park, W Kim, C Kim - APL bioengineering, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The phthalocyanine (Pc) and naphthalocyanine (Nc) nanoagents have drawn much
attention as contrast agents for photoacoustic (PA) imaging due to their large extinction …

Optoacoustic imaging in inflammation

AP Regensburger, E Brown, G Krönke, MJ Waldner… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Optoacoustic or photoacoustic imaging (OAI/PAI) is a technology which enables non-
invasive visualization of laser-illuminated tissue by the detection of acoustic signals. The …