Photoacoustic tomography: Fundamentals, advances and prospects

Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 332-345

  Yao, Junjie ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiscale imaging; Optical absorption contrast; Photoacoustic computed tomography; Photoacoustic endoscopy; Photoacoustic microscopy; Photoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; LIPID; MELANIN; WATER;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BREAST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ENDOSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; INTERFEROMETER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPE; MICROVASCULATURE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84856134878     PISSN: 15554309     EISSN: 15554317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmmi.443     Document Type: Review

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