Photoacoustic imaging of the microvasculature with a high-frequency ultrasound array transducer

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Zemp, Roger J ^a   Bitton, Rachel ^b   Li, Meng Lin ^c   Shung, K Kirk ^b   Stoica, George ^d   Wang, Lihong V ^e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophotonic imaging; High frequency array transducer; High frequency ultrasound; Microcirculation; Microvascular; Optical absorption; Photoacoustic imaging; Photoacoustic microscopy; Ultrasound arrays

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

BLOOD VESSELS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VISUALIZATION;

BIOPHOTONIC IMAGING; MICROVASCULAR; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND ARRAYS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

RATTUS;

EID: 34247375495     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2709850     Document Type: Article

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