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Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a non-invasive imaging modality, similar to ultrasound, with wide-ranging medical applications. Conventional PACT images are degraded by wavefront distortion caused by the heterogeneous speed of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Tianao Li , Manxiu Cui , Cheng Ma , Emma Alexander

Photo-Acoustic Tomography (PAT) can reconstruct a distribution of optical absorbers acting as instantaneous sound sources in subcutaneous microvasculature of a human breast. Adjoint methods for PAT, typically Time-Reversal (TR) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Hongxiang Lin , Takashi Azuma , Mehmet Burcin Unlu , Shu Takagi

For a unified analysis of medical images from different modalities, data harmonization using image-to-image (I2I) translation is desired. We study this problem employing an optical coherence tomography (OCT) data set of Spectralis-OCT and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Marc S. Seibel , Hristina Uzunova , Timo Kepp , Heinz Handels

In this article, we study several reconstruction methods for the inverse source problem of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) with spatially variable sound speed and damping. The backbone of these methods is the adjoint operators, which we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Linh V. Nguyen , Markus Haltmeier

The attenuation of ultrasound waves in photoacoustic and thermoacoustic imaging presents an important drawback in the applicability of these modalities. This issue has been addressed previously in the applied and theoretical literature, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Benjamin Palacios

Acousto-Optical Coherence Tomography (AOCT) is a variant of Acousto Optic Imaging (also called Ultrasound modulated Optical Tomography) that makes possible to get resolution along the ultrasound propagation axis $z$. We present here new…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-07 Max Lesaffre , Salma Farahi , François Ramaz , Michel Gross

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a novel and rapidly promising technique in the field of medical imaging, based on the generation of acoustic waves inside an object of interest by stimulating non-ionizing laser pulses. This acoustic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Hyungyeong Jung , Sunghwan Moon

Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography (Q-OCT) is the non-classical counterpart of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) - a high-resolution 3D imaging technique based on white-light interferometry. Because Q-OCT uses a source of…

In a medium where the dielectric permittivity is perturbed in the presence of an acoustic wave, optical scattering generates frequency-shifted light. In this paper we consider the inverse problem of recovering the optical properties of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Francis J. Chung , Jeremy G. Hoskins , John C. Schotland

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent non-invasive imaging method which provides high resolution volumetric visualization of retina. However, its inherent defect, the speckle noise, can seriously deteriorate the tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Dewei Hu , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high-resolution three-dimensional imaging technique that enables non-destructive measurements of surface and subsurface microstructures. Recent developments of OCT operating in the mid-infrared (MIR)…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Ivan Zorin , Rong Su , Bettina Heise , Bernhard Lendl , Markus Brandstetter

Jones-matrix optical coherence tomography (JM-OCT) is an extension of OCT that provides multiple types of optical contrasts of biological and clinical samples. JM-OCT measures the spatial distribution of the Jones matrix of the sample and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Yoshiaki Yasuno

Ultrasound modulated optical tomography, also called acousto-optics tomography, is a hybrid imaging modality that aims to combine the high contrast of optical waves with the high resolution of ultrasound. We follow the model of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Guillaume Bal , Shari Moskow

This paper is a review of recent mathematical and computational advances in optical tomography. We discuss the physical foundations of forward models for light propagation on microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic scales. We also consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-16 Simon Arridge , John Schotland

This dissertation relates to the transition of the state of the art of swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) systems to a new realm in which the image acquisition speed is improved by an order of magnitude. With the aid of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Amir Tofighi Zavareh

The objective of quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is to reconstruct optical and thermodynamic properties of heterogeneous media from data of absorbed energy distribution inside the media. There have been extensive theoretical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Alexander V. Mamonov , Kui Ren

Using spectrally correlated photon pairs instead of classical laser light and coincidence detection instead of light intensity detection, Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography (Q-OCT) outperforms classical OCT in several experimental terms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Sylwia M. Kolenderska , Crislane Vieira de Brito , Piotr Kolenderski

Standard photoacoustic tomography (PAT) provides data that consist of time-dependent signals governed by the wave equation, which are measured on an observation surface. In contrast, the measured data from the recently invented full-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Ngoc Do , Markus Haltmeier , Richard Kowar , Linh V. Nguyen , Robert Nuster

The literature on reconstruction formulas for photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is vast. The various reconstruction formulas differ by used measurement devices and geometry on which the data are sampled. In standard photoacoustic imaging…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Peter Elbau , Otmar Scherzer , Rainer Schulze

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is an emerging computed imaging modality that exploits optical contrast and ultrasonic detection principles to form images of the absorbed optical energy density within tissue. When the imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Qiwei Sheng , Kun Wang , Thomas P. Matthews , Jun Xia , Liren Zhu , Lihong V. Wang , Mark A. Anastasio