Photoacoustic brain imaging: From microscopic to macroscopic scales

Neurophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yao, Junjie ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

deep brain imaging; functional imaging; metabolic imaging; molecular imaging; optical absorption contrast; photoacoustic microscopy; photoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN IMAGING; BRAIN IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; METABOLIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

BRAIN MAPPING;

ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN METABOLISM; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REVIEW;

EID: 84979009927     PISSN: 2329423X     EISSN: 23294248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.1.1.011003     Document Type: Review

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