English
Related papers

Related papers: Photo-acoustic tomography in a rotating measuremen…

200 papers

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an emerging technology for biomedical imaging that combines the superiorities of high optical contrast and acoustic penetration. In the PAT system, more photoacoustic (PA) signals are preferred to be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-09 Daohuai Jiang , Hengrong Lan , Yiyun Wang , Feng Gao , Fei Gao

In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), the computation of the initial pressure distribution within an object from its time-dependent boundary measurements over time is considered. This problem can be approached from two well-established points…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Jaakko Kultima , Ronny Ramlau , Teemu Sahlström , Tanja Tarvainen

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

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

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) represents an innovative biomedical imaging modality that harnesses the advantages of optical resolution and acoustic penetration depth while ensuring enhanced safety. Despite its promising potential across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lei Wang , Weiming Zeng , Kai Long , Hongyu Chen , Rongfeng Lan , Li Liu , Wai Ting Siok , Nizhuan Wang

Photoacoustic imaging can achieve high-resolution three-dimensional visualization of optical absorbers at penetration depths ~ 1 cm in biological tissues by detecting optically-induced high ultrasound frequencies. Tomographic acquisition…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-15 Jérôme Gateau , Marc Gesnik , Jean-Marie Chassot , Emmanuel Bossy

We present a new nonlinear optimization approach for the sparse reconstruction of single-photon absorption and two-photon absorption coefficients in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). This framework comprises of minimizing an objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Madhu Gupta , Rohit Kumar Mishra , Souvik Roy

In this paper, we describe the numerical reconstruction method for quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) based on the radiative transfer equation (RTE), which models light propagation more accurately than diffusion approximation…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-25 Chao Wang , Tie Zhou

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

In most photoacoustic (PA) measurements, variations in speed-of-sound (SOS) of the subject are neglected under the assumption of acoustic homogeneity. Biological tissue with spatially heterogeneous SOS cannot be accurately reconstructed…

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

This work is concerned with uncertainty quantification problems for image reconstructions in quantitative photoacoustic imaging (PAT), a recent hybrid imaging modality that utilizes the photoacoustic effect to achieve high-resolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Kui Ren , Sarah Vallélian

Photo-acoustic Tomography (PAT) and Thermo-acoustic Tomography (TAT) are medical imaging modalities that combine the high contrast of radiative properties of tissues with the high resolution of ultrasound. In both modalities, a first step…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 Guillaume Bal

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 imaging (PAI) and ultrasound imaging (USI) are important biomedical imaging techniques, due to their unique and complementary advantages in tissue's structure and function visualization. In this Letter, we proposed a coaxial…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Yunhui Jiang , Fan Zhang , Yuwei Zheng , Ruixi Sun , Fei Gao

Among all tissue imaging modalities, photo-acoustic tomography (PAT) has been getting increasing attention in the recent past due to the fact that it has high contrast, high penetrability, and has capability of retrieving high resolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Nadaparambil Aravindakshan Rejesh , Muthuvel Arigovindan

Photoacoustic (PA) computed tomography (PACT) shows great potentials in various preclinical and clinical applications. A great number of measurements are the premise that obtains a high-quality image, which implies a low imaging rate or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hengrong Lan , Juze Zhang , Changchun Yang , Fei Gao

Photoacoustic tomography seeks to reconstruct an acoustic initial pressure distribution from the measurement of the ultrasound waveforms. Conventional methods assume a-prior knowledge of the sound speed distribution, which practically is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Hongming Shan , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang , Yang Yang

Photoacoustic tomography is a hybrid biomedical technology, which combines the advantages of acoustic and optical imaging. However, for the conventional image reconstruction method, the image quality is affected obviously by artifacts under…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Bowei Yao , Yi Zeng , Haizhao Dai , Qing Wu , Youshen Xiao , Fei Gao , Yuyao Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Xiran Cai

Recently, a novel measurement setup has been introduced to photoacoustic tomography, that collects data in the form of projections of the full 3D acoustic pressure distribution at a certain time instant. Existing imaging algorithms for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Gerhard Zangerl , Markus Haltmeier , Linh V. Nguyen , Robert Nuster