Photoacoustic imaging of lipid rich plaques in human aorta

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7564, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Allen, T J ^a   Hall, A ^b   Dhillon, A ^b   Owen, J S ^b   Beard, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Photoacoustic spectroscopy; Vascular tissue; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

1300NM WAVELENGTH; ARTERIAL TISSUE; INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING; LIPID CONCENTRATION; MULTIWAVELENGTH; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE; POST MORTEM; SPECTRAL FEATURE; VASCULAR TISSUE; VULNERABLE PLAQUES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BLOOD; INFRARED DEVICES; LIPIDS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77951586131     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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