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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), by combining high optical contrast with ultrasonic resolution, offers a promising noninvasive approach for dynamic monitoring of cerebral vasculature. However, transcranial PAI still faces significant challenges…

Photo-acoustic tomography (PAT) aims to leverage the photo-acoustic coupling between optical absorption of light sources and ultrasound (US) emission to obtain high contrast reconstructions of optical parameters with the high resolution of…

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Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a newly developed medical imaging modality, which combines the advantages of pure optical imaging and ultrasound imaging, owning both high optical contrast and deep penetration depth. Very recently, PAT is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Tengbo Lyu , Jiadong Zhang , Zijian Gao , Changchun Yang , Feng Gao , Fei Gao

Photoacoustic Tomography (PAT) is an emerging biomedical "imaging from coupled physics" technique, in which the image contrast is due to optical absorption, but the information is carried to the surface of the tissue as ultrasound pulses.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Simon R. Arridge , Marta M. Betcke , Ben T. Cox , Felix Lucka , Brad E. Treeby

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging modality that extends the functionality of OCT by extracting moving red blood cell signals from surrounding static biological tissues. OCTA has emerged as a valuable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Jinpeng Liao , Tianyu Zhang , Yilong Zhang , Chunhui Li , Zhihong Huang

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

Imaging the human body's morphological and angiographic information is essential for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating medical conditions. Ultrasonography performs the morphological assessment of the soft tissue based on acoustic…

Accurate segmentation of vascular structures in coronary angiography remains a core challenge in medical image analysis due to the complexity of elongated, thin, and low-contrast vessels. Classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Nabil Hezil , Suraj Singh , Vita Vlasova , Oleg Rogov , Ahmed Bouridane , Rifat Hamoudi

Photoacoustic imaging is the leading technique for deep tissue optical imaging, allowing single-shot imaging at depths. However, its resolution may be limited by acoustic aberrations, caused by natural unknown heterogeneities in the tissue…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yevgeny Slobodkin , Ori Katz

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 tomography (PAT) is a non-invasive imaging modality that requires recovering the initial data of the wave equation from certain measurements of the solution outside the object. In the standard PAT measurement setup, the used…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Linh V. Nguyen , Markus Haltmeier , Richard Kowar , Ngoc Do

Photoacoustic imaging has proven to be able to detect vascularization-driven optical absorption contrast associated with tumors. In order to detect breast tumors located a few centimeter deep in tissue, a sensitive ultrasound detector is of…

Dynamic and precise measurement of cerebral blood flow velocity is crucial in neuroscience and the diagnosis of cerebrovascular diseases. Traditional color Doppler ultrasound can only measure the velocity component along the ultrasound…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Shaoyuan Yan , Yiming Ding , Guoao Ma , Yapeng Fu , Kailiang Xu , Dean Ta

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) detects light-induced ultrasound waves to reconstruct the optical absorption contrast of the biological tissues. Due to its relatively deep penetration (several centimeters in soft tissue), high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Yuqi Tang , Junjie Yao

Estimation of blood oxygenation with spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging is a promising tool for several biomedical applications. For this method to be quantitative, it relies on an accurate method of the light fluence in the tissue. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Geoffrey P. Luke , Kevin Hoffer-Hawlik , Austin C. Van Namen , Ruibo Shang

Purpose: Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a novel imaging technique that can spatially resolve both morphological and functional tissue properties, such as the vessel topology and tissue oxygenation. While this capacity makes PAT a…

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

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is capable of non-destructively obtaining cross-sectional information of samples with micrometer spatial resolution, which plays an important role in ophthalmology and endovascular medicine. Measuring OCT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Yang Jianlong , Zhang Haoran , Liu Chang , Gu Chengfu

In this study, we develop vector flow imaging techniques for multi-layered models with a high wavespeed contrast using photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging. We use refraction-corrected delay-and-sum image reconstruction (RC-DAS), which…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Caitlin Smith , Guillaume Renaud , Kasper van Wijk , Jami Shepherd

Photoacoustic fluctuation imaging, which exploits randomness in photoacoustic generation, provides enhanced images in terms of resolution and visibility, as compared to conventional photoacoustic images. While a few experimental…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-19 Sergey Vilov , Guillaume Godefroy , Bastien Arnal , Emmanuel Bossy