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Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) and thermoacoustic tomography (TAT) both leverage acoustic signals generated by electromagnetic absorption to noninvasively image deep tissues. PAT operates by detecting optical absorption, whereas TAT targets…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Skyler P. Selvin , XuanHao Wang , Handi Deng , Bohua Chen , Cheng Ma

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an emerging and non-invasive hybrid imaging modality for visualizing light absorbing structures in biological tissue. The recently invented PAT systems using arrays of 64 parallel integrating line detectors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Johannes Schwab , Stephan Antholzer , Robert Nuster , Markus Haltmeier

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT), also known as optoacoustic tomography, is an emerging imaging modality that has great potential for a wide range of biomedical imaging applications. In this Note, we derive a hybrid reconstruction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Kun Wang , Mark A. Anastasio

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. If the object…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Joemini Poudel , Thomas P. Matthews , Lei Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Lihong V. Wang

Applying standard algorithms to sparse data problems in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) yields low-quality images containing severe under-sampling artifacts. To some extent, these artifacts can be reduced by iterative image reconstruction…

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Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a rapidly emerging bioimaging modality that seeks to reconstruct an estimate of the absorbed optical energy density within an object. Conventional PACT image reconstruction methods assume a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Chao Huang , Kun Wang , Robert W. Schoonover , Lihong V. Wang , Mark A. Anastasio

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

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) combines the advantages of the spectroscopic optical absorption contrast and acoustic resolution with deep penetration, and becomes an important novel biomedical imaging technology for scientific research and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-23 Daohuai Jiang , Yifei Xu , Hengrong Lan , Feng Gao , Fei Gao

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (qPAT) is an imaging technique aimed at estimating chromophore concentrations inside tissues from photoacoustic images, which are formed by combining optical information and ultrasonic propagation. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Hwan Goh , Timo Lahivaara , Tanja Tarvainen , Aki Pulkkinen , Owen Dillon , Ruanui Nicholson , Jari Kaipio

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a biomedical imaging modality capable of acquiring high-contrast images of optical absorption at depths much greater than traditional optical imaging techniques. However, practical instrumentation and geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Mengjie Guo , Hengrong Lan , Changchun Yang , Fei Gao

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a nonionizing imaging modality capable of acquiring high contrast and resolution images of optical absorption at depths greater than traditional optical imaging techniques. Practical considerations with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Steven Guan , Amir A. Khan , Siddhartha Sikdar , Parag V. Chitnis

Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) is a major configuration of photoacoustic imaging, a hybrid noninvasive modality for both functional and molecular imaging. PACT has rapidly gained importance in the field of biomedical imaging due…

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging combines the high optical absorption contrast of optical imaging with the deep tissue penetration of ultrasound detection, offering great potential for functional imaging and disease diagnosis. However, current PA…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-29 Daohuai Jiang , Xuanxuan Ye , Hengrong Lan , Xianzeng Zhang , Fei Gao

The inverse source problem arising in photoacoustic tomography and in several other coupled-physics modalities is frequently solved by iterative algorithms. Such algorithms are based on the minimization of a certain cost functional. In…

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Based on photoacoustic effect, photoacoustic tomography is developing very fast in recent years, and becoming an important imaging tool for both preclinical and clinical studies. With enough ultrasound transducers placed around the…

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Purpose: Optoacoustic tomography (OAT) is inherently a three-dimensional (3D) inverse problem. However, most studies of OAT image reconstruction still employ two-dimensional (2D) imaging models. One important reason is because 3D image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-04-09 Kun Wang , Chao Huang , Yu-Jiun Kao , Cheng-Ying Chou , Alexander A. Oraevsky , Mark A. Anastasio

Photo-acoustic tomography is a newly developed hybrid imaging modality that combines a high-resolution modality with a high-contrast modality. We analyze the reconstruction of diffusion and absorption parameters in an elliptic equation and…

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Fluorescence photoacoustic tomography (fPAT) is a molecular imaging modality that combines photoacoustic tomography (PAT) with fluorescence imaging to obtain high-resolution imaging of fluorescence distributions inside heterogeneous media.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Kui Ren , Rongting Zhang , Yimin Zhong

We propose a model-based image reconstruction method for photoacoustic tomography(PAT) involving a novel form of regularization and demonstrate its ability to recover good quality images from significantly reduced size datasets. The…

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