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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) uniquely combines the advantages of optical contrast with deep tissue penetration capability of acoustic waves, enabling imaging at depths of several centimeters. Conventional photoacoustic imaging methods have…

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In this paper we consider a mathematical model for photoacoustic imaging which takes into account attenuation due to thermodynamic dissipation. The propagation of acoustic (compressional) waves is governed by a scalar wave equation coupled…

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Focused transmits are the most commonly used transmit strategy for echocardiograms, but suffer from relatively low frame rates, and in 3D, even lower volume rates. Fast imaging based on unfocused transmits has disadvantages such as motion…

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In photoacoustic tomography, one is interested to recover the initial pressure distribution inside a tissue from the corresponding measurements of the induced acoustic wave on the boundary of a region enclosing the tissue. In the limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Florian Dreier , Sergiy Pereverzyev , Markus Haltmeier

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is a promising technique that achieves superior medical imaging reconstruction resolution by fully leveraging waveform information, outperforming conventional ultrasound methods. Despite its advantages,…

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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising emerging imaging modality that enables spatially resolved imaging of optical tissue properties up to several centimeters deep in tissue, creating the potential for numerous exciting clinical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Janek Gröhl , Melanie Schellenberg , Kris Dreher , Lena Maier-Hein

Photoacoustic image reconstruction often assumes that the restriction of the acoustic pressure on the detection surface is given. However, commonly used detectors often have a certain directivity and frequency dependence, in which case the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Gerhard Zangerl , Sunghwan Moon , Markus Haltmeier

Three-dimensional (3D) photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a powerful noninvasive biomedical imaging modality that provides volumetric data for structural and functional assessment \textit{in vivo}. To maximize angular coverage and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Wanqing Zhang , Hengyue Zhu , Yide Zhang

Compressed sensing (CS) is a promising approach to reduce the number of measurements in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) while preserving high spatial resolution. This allows to increase the measurement speed and to reduce system costs.…

We deal with the photoacoustic imaging modality using dielectric nanoparticles as contrast agents. Exciting the heterogeneous tissue, localized in a bounded domain $\Omega$, with an electromagnetic wave, at a given incident frequency,…

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We consider the problem of signal reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) under a nonlinear forward model that accounts for exponential signal attenuation, a polychromatic X-ray source, general measurement noise (e.g., Poisson shot…

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Acousto-optical coherence tomography (AOCT) consists in using random phase jumps on ultrasound and light to achieve a millimeter resolution when imaging thick scattering media. We combined this technique with heterodyne off-axis digital…

To obtain the initial pressure from the collected data on a planar sensor arrangement in Photoacoustic tomography, there exists an exact analytic frequency domain reconstruction formula. An efficient realization of this formula needs to…

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Most reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic imaging assume that the pressure field is measured by ultrasound sensors placed on a detection surface. However, such sensors do not measure pressure exactly due to their non-uniform…

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Volumetric, multimodal imaging with precise spatial and temporal co-registration can provide valuable and complementary information for diagnosis and monitoring. Considerable research has sought to combine 3D photoacoustic (PA) and…

Acoustic holograms are the keystone of modern acoustics. It encodes three-dimensional acoustic fields in two dimensions, and its quality determine the performance of acoustic systems. Optimisation methods that control only the phase of an…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Tatsuki Fushimi , Kenta Yamamoto , Yoichi Ochiai

Photoacoustic tomography leverages ultrasound's deep tissue penetration to retrieve optical absorption contrast well beyond the optical diffusion limit. Conventional photoacoustic systems rely on externally delivered light and are therefore…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-06 David C. Garrett , Lihong V. Wang

In this paper, we propose a hybrid method to reconstruct the absorption coefficient by fluorescence photoacoustic tomography (FPAT), which combines a squeeze iterative method (SIM) and a nonlinear optimization method. The SIM is to use two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Chao Wang , Tie Zhou

Quantitative photoacoustic computed tomography (qPACT) is a promising imaging modality for estimating physiological parameters such as blood oxygen saturation. However, developing robust qPACT reconstruction methods remains challenging due…

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