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Background: Photoacoustic Microscopy (PAM) integrates optical and acoustic imaging, offering enhanced penetration depth for detecting optical-absorbing components in tissues. Nonetheless, challenges arise in scanning large areas with high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Irem Loc , Mehmet Burcin Unlu

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

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality capable of providing both high contrast and high resolution of optical and UltraSound (US) imaging. When a short duration laser pulse illuminates the tissue as a target…

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Biomedical photoacoustic tomography, which can provide high resolution 3D soft tissue images based on the optical absorption, has advanced to the stage at which translation from the laboratory to clinical settings is becoming possible. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Andreas Hauptmann , Ben Cox

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT), also known as optoacoustic tomography, is an emerging imaging technique that holds great promise for biomedical imaging. PACT is a hybrid imaging method that can exploit the strong endogenous…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Joemini Poudel , Yang Lou , Mark A. Anastasio

Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is an emerging imaging method combining light and sound. However, limited by the laser's repetition rate, state-of-the-art high-speed PAM technology often sacrifices spatial sampling density (i.e.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Tri Vu , Anthony DiSpirito , Daiwei Li , Zixuan Zhang , Xiaoyi Zhu , Maomao Chen , Laiming Jiang , Dong Zhang , Jianwen Luo , Yu Shrike Zhang , Qifa Zhou , Roarke Horstmeyer , Junjie Yao

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

One primary technical challenge in photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is the necessary compromise between spatial resolution and imaging speed. In this study, we propose a novel application of deep learning principles to reconstruct…

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In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), a hybrid imaging modality that is based on the acoustic detection of optical absorption from biological tissue exposed to a pulsed laser, a short pulse laser generates an initial pressure proportional to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Sunghwan Moon , Anwesa Dey , Souvik Roy

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) can image high-resolution structures of clinical interest such as vascularity in cancerous tumor monitoring. When imaging human subjects, geometric restrictions force limited-view data retrieval causing imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Rafael Orozco , Mathias Louboutin , Felix J. Herrmann

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has the potential to revolutionize functional medical imaging in healthcare due to the valuable information on tissue physiology contained in multispectral photoacoustic measurements. Clinical translation of the…

As a hybrid imaging technology, photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) imaging suffers from noise due to the maximum permissible exposure of laser intensity, attenuation of ultrasound in the tissue, and the inherent noise of the transducer.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Da He , Jiasheng Zhou , Xiaoyu Shang , Jiajia Luo , Sung-Liang Chen

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Nadaparambil Aravindakshan Rejesh , Sandeep Kumar Kalva , Manojit Pramanik , Muthuvel Arigovindan

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…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Refik Mert Cam , Seonyeong Park , Umberto Villa , Mark A. Anastasio

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), is a promising medical imaging technique that provides the high contrast of the optical imaging and the resolution of ultrasound (US) imaging. Among all the methods, Three-dimensional (3D) PAI provides a high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Roya Paridar , Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Ali Mahloojifar , Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki , Mahdi Orooji

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has been applied to many biomedical applications over the past decades. However, the received PA signal usually suffers from poor signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Conventional solution of employing higher-power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Xinke Li , Peng Ge , Yuting Shen , Feng Gao , Fei Gao

We study the deep image prior (DIP) framework applied to photoacoustic tomography (PAT) as an unsupervised reconstruction approach to mitigate limited-view artifacts and noise commonly encountered in experimental settings. Efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Hanna Pulkkinen , Jenni Poimala , Leonid Kunyansky , Janek Gröhl , Andreas Hauptmann

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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