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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…

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Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a novel and rapidly promising technique in the field of medical imaging, based on the generation of acoustic waves inside an object of interest by stimulating non-ionizing laser pulses. This acoustic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Hyungyeong Jung , Sunghwan Moon

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

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) combines the advantages of the spectroscopic optical absorption contrast and acoustic resolution with deep penetration, and becomes an important novel biomedical imaging technology for scientific research and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-23 Daohuai Jiang , Yifei Xu , Hengrong Lan , Feng Gao , Fei Gao

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

Diffusion models face significant challenges when employed for large-scale medical image reconstruction in real practice such as 3D Computed Tomography (CT). Due to the demanding memory, time, and data requirements, it is difficult to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bowen Song , Jason Hu , Zhaoxu Luo , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Liyue Shen

We consider the reconstruction of the diffusion and absorption coefficients of the diffusion equation from the internal information of the solution obtained from the first step of the inverse photoacoustic tomography (PAT). In practice, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Faouzi Triki , Qi Xue

We study the inverse source problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) for mixed data, which denote a weighted linear combination of the acoustic pressure and its normal derivative on an observation surface. We consider in particular the…

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Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

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Photo-acoustic tomography is a coupled-physics (hybrid) medical imaging modality that aims to reconstruct optical parameters in biological tissues from ultrasound measurements. As propagating light gets partially absorbed, the resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Guillaume Bal , Adrian Kirkeby

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 tomography (PAT) is an emerging imaging modality that combines the complementary strengths of optical contrast and ultrasonic resolution. A central task is image reconstruction, where measured acoustic signals are used to…

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Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is an emerging imaging modality that exploits optical contrast and ultrasonic detection principles to form images of the photoacoustically induced initial pressure distribution within tissue. The…

Motion, e.g., due to patient movement or improper device calibration, is inevitable in many imaging modalities such as photoacoustic tomography (PAT) by a rotating system and can lead to undesirable motion artifacts in image…

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Iterative model-based image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) enables principled incorporation of detector physics, object-related priors, and complex acquisition strategies. However, for three-dimensional (3D) imaging…

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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Johannes Schwab , Stephan Antholzer , Robert Nuster , Markus Haltmeier

Optoacoustic tomography image reconstruction has been a problem of interest in recent years. By exploiting the exceptional generative power of the recently proposed diffusion models we consider a scheme which is based on a conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Martin G. Gonzalez , Matias Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega

Using recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) brought by diffusion models, this paper introduces a new synergistic method for spectral computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Diffusion models define a neural network to…

Compressed sensing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image formation, formulated as an inverse problem and solved with traditional iterative optimization methods can be very computationally expensive. We investigate the use of denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Odysseas Pappas , Perla Mayo , Andrew Austin , Alin Achim

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