Characterization of lipid-rich aortic plaques by intravascular photoacoustic tomography: ex vivo and in vivo validation in a rabbit atherosclerosis model with histologic …

J Zhang, S Yang, X Ji, Q Zhou, D Xing - Journal of the American College of …, 2014 - jacc.org
Background: Histologic studies have demonstrated that lipid content and its spatial
distribution is related to plaque vulnerability. However, in vivo imaging is still limited …

All-optical scanhead for ultrasound and photoacoustic dual-modality imaging

BY Hsieh, SL Chen, T Ling, LJ Guo, PC Li - Optics Express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new scanhead design for combined ultrasound (US)/photoacoustic (PA)
imaging that can be applied to dual-modality microscopy and biomedical imaging. Both …

Toward quantitative whole organ thermoacoustics with a clinical array plus one very low-frequency channel applied to prostate cancer imaging

SK Patch, D Hull, WA See… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermoacoustics has the potential to provide quantitative images of intrinsic tissue
properties, most notably electrical conductivity in Siemens/meter, much as shear wave …

Integrated intravascular ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging scan head

BY Hsieh, SL Chen, T Ling, LJ Guo, PC Li - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
The combination of intravascular ultrasound and intravascular photoacoustic imaging has
been proposed for improving the diagnosis of arterial diseases. We describe a novel scan …

3D-visual laser-diode-based photoacoustic imaging

L Zeng, G Liu, D Yang, X Ji - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present a 3D-visual laser-diode-based photoacoustic imaging (LD-PAI) system with a
pulsed semiconductor laser source, which has the properties of being inexpensive, portable …

Fine depth resolution of two-photon absorption-induced photoacoustic microscopy using low-frequency bandpass filtering

Y Yamaoka, M Nambu, T Takamatsu - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Photoacoustic microscopy usually uses high-frequency photoacoustic waves, which provide
not only high spatial resolution but also limitation of the penetration depth. In this study, we …

Reconstruction of high quality photoacoustic tomography with a limited-view scanning

C Tao, X Liu - Optics Express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
The goal of this work is to resolve the limited-view problem of photoacoustic tomography
(PAT). We report a two-loop iteration method to inverse the photoacoustic sources from the …

Photoacoustic measurement of liquid viscosity

C Lou, D Xing - Applied Physics Letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
In this letter, we report on the use of photoacoustic method to measure the viscosity of
viscous liquids. The theoretical and experimental study was performed on the influence of …

[HTML][HTML] Fluence-matching technique using photoacoustic radiofrequency spectra for improving estimates of oxygen saturation

MN Fadhel, E Hysi, H Assi, MC Kolios - Photoacoustics, 2020 - Elsevier
Photoacoustic (PA) signals encode information about the optical absorption and spatial
distribution of absorbing chromophores as well as the light distribution in the medium. The …

Photoacoustic microscopy using ultrashort pulses with two different pulse durations

Y Yamaoka, Y Harada, M Sakakura, T Minamikawa… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We propose photoacoustic microscopy using ultrashort pulses with two different pulse
durations in the range from femtoseconds to picoseconds. The subtraction of images for …