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In deep tissue photoacoustic imaging the spatial resolution is inherently limited by the acoustic wavelength. Recently, it was demonstrated that it is possible to surpass the acoustic diffraction limit by analyzing fluctuations in a set of…

Deep, high-resolution imaging is essential for unraveling biological complexity and advancing medical diagnostics, yet scattering fundamentally limits optical methods. Among the most promising approaches, photoacoustic imaging achieves…

We deal with the photoacoustic imaging modality using dielectric nanoparticles as contrast agents. Exciting the heterogeneous tissue, localized in a bounded domain $\Omega$, with an electromagnetic wave, at a given incident frequency,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Ahcene Ghandriche , Mourad Sini

In photoacoustic imaging, ultrasound waves generated by a temperature rise after illumination of light absorbing structures are measured on the sample surface. These measurements are then used to reconstruct the optical absorption. We…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Oliver Lang , Peter Kovacs , Christian Motz , Mario Huemer , Thomas Berer , Peter Burgholzer

Photoacoustic detection is a sensitive method for measurement of light-absorbing particles directly in the aerosol phase. In this article, we demonstrate a new sensitive technique for photoacoustic aerosol absorption measurements using a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-24 Juho Karhu , Joel Kuula , Aki Virkkula , Hilkka Timonen , Markku Vainio , Tuomas Hieta

Optical microscopy has so far been restricted to superficial layers, leaving many important biological questions unanswered. Random scattering causes the ballistic focus, which is conventionally used for image formation, to decay…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-28 Ke Si , Reto Fiolka , Meng Cui

We demonstrate the ability to guide high-frequency photoacoustic waves through thick tissue with a water-filled silica-capillary (150 \mu m inner diameter and 30 mm long). An optical-resolution photoacoustic image of a 30 \mu m diameter…

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…

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 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

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

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a hybrid imaging modality, which combines the high optical contrast of pure optical imaging and the high penetration depth of ultrasound imaging. However, photoacoustic image dataset with good…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Tengbo Lyu , Changchun Yang , Jiadong Zhang , Shanshan Guo , Feng Gao , Fei Gao

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 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 (PA) imaging combines the high optical absorption contrast of optical imaging with the deep tissue penetration of ultrasound detection, offering great potential for functional imaging and disease diagnosis. However, current PA…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-29 Daohuai Jiang , Xuanxuan Ye , Hengrong Lan , Xianzeng Zhang , Fei Gao

Ultrasound attenuation is caused by absorption and scattering in tissue and is thus a function of tissue composition, hence its imaging offers great potential for screening and differential diagnosis. In this paper we propose a novel method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Richard Rau , Ozan Unal , Dieter Schweizer , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel

Accurate measurement of optical absorption coefficients from photoacoustic imaging (PAI) data would enable direct mapping of molecular concentrations, providing vital clinical insight. The ill-posed nature of the problem of absorption…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Janek Gröhl , Thomas R. Else , Lina Hacker , Ellie V. Bunce , Paul W. Sweeney , Sarah E. Bohndiek

We propose a strategy for quantitative photoacoustic mapping of chromophore concentrations that can be performed purely experimentally. We exploit the possibility of acousto-optic modulation using focused ultrasound, and the principle that…

Optics · Physics 2012-07-23 Khalid Daoudi , Wiendelt Steenbergen

Photoacoustic imaging has emerged as a powerful, non-invasive modality for various biomedical applications. Conventional photoacoustic systems require contact-based ultrasound detection and expensive and bulky high-power lasers for the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Emiel Dieussaert , Roel Baets , Hilde Jans , Xavier Rottenberg , Yanlu Li

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