Photoacoustic characterisation of vascular tissue at NIR wavelengths.

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7177, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Allen, Thomas J ^a   Beard, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Photoacoustic imaging; Photoacoustic spectroscopy; Vascular tissue; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL TISSUE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHARACTERISATION; EXCITATION LIGHT; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; HAEMOGLOBIN; INTRAVASCULAR PROBE; NEAR INFRA RED; NIR WAVELENGTH; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; TISSUE SAMPLES; TISSUE TYPES; VASCULAR TISSUE; VISIBLE RANGE; VULNERABLE PLAQUE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 66249121715     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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