Photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging using dual contrast perfluorocarbon nanodroplets triggered by laser pulses at 1064 nm

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3042-3052

  Hannah, Alexander S ^a   VanderLaan, Donald ^a   Chen, Yun Sheng ^a   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VAPORIZATION;

BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; GAS MICROBUBBLES; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

PULSED LASERS;

FLUOROCARBON; NANODROPLET; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER; PHANTOM; PHOTOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YAG LASER;

EID: 84931825952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.003042     Document Type: Article

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