Collecting back-reflected photons in photoacoustic microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1278-1282

  Zhang, Hao F ^a   Wang, Jing ^a,c   Wei, Qing ^a   Liu, Tan ^a   Jiao, Shuliang ^b   Puliafito, Carmen A ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROSCOPES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; IN-VIVO; LASER LIGHTS; LASER SCANNING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OPTICAL ENERGY; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; REFLECTED PHOTONS; SMALL ANIMAL;

PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MOUSE; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 75249086813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001278     Document Type: Article

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