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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…

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In photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) with short-pulsed laser excitation, wideband acoustic signals are generated in biological tissues with frequencies related to the effective shapes and sizes of the optically absorbing targets.…

Dynamic Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) is an important imaging technique for monitoring physiological processes, capable of providing high-contrast images of optical absorption at much greater depths than traditional optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Youshen Xiao , Yiling Shi , Ruixi Sun , Hongjiang Wei , Fei Gao , Yuyao Zhang

Learning physics-constrained inverse operators-rather than post-processing physics-based reconstructions-is a broadly applicable strategy for problems with expensive forward models. We demonstrate this principle in three-dimensional…

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a non-invasive imaging modality that detects the ultrasound signal generated from tissue with light excitation. Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) uses unfocused large-area light to illuminate the target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Hengrong Lan , Jiali Gong , Fei Gao

Current 3D photoacoustic tomography (PAT) systems offer either high image quality or high frame rates but are not able to deliver high spatial and temporal resolution simultaneously, which limits their ability to image dynamic processes in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Simon Arridge , Paul Beard , Marta Betcke , Ben Cox , Nam Huynh , Felix Lucka , Olumide Ogunlade , Edward Zhang

A crucial limitation of current high-resolution 3D photoacoustic tomography (PAT) devices that employ sequential scanning is their long acquisition time. In previous work, we demonstrated how to use compressed sensing techniques to improve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Felix Lucka , Nam Huynh , Marta Betcke , Edward Zhang , Paul Beard , Ben Cox , Simon Arridge

As an emerging medical diagnostic technology, photoacoustic imaging has been implemented for both preclinical and clinical applications. For clinical convenience, a handheld free scan photoacoustic tomography (PAT) system providing 3D…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Daohuai Jiang , Hongbo Chen , Yuting Shen , Yifan Zhang , Feng Gao , Rui Zheng , Fei Gao

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 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 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) 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

Multispectral photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an imaging modality that utilizes the photoacoustic effect to achieve non-invasive and high-contrast imaging of internal tissues. However, the hardware cost and computational demand of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yutian Zhong , Xiaoming Zhang , Zongxin Mo , Shuangyang Zhang , Wufan Chen , Li Qi

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a promising imaging modality that combines the advantages of optical contrast with ultrasound detection. Utilizing ultrasound transducers with larger surface areas can improve detection…

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Guillaume Bal , Amir Moradifam

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

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 tomography is a contrast agent-free imaging technique capable of visualizing blood vessels and tumor-associated vascularization in breast tissue. While sophisticated breast imaging systems have been recently developed, there…

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