A practical guide to photoacoustic tomography in the life sciences

Nature Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 627-638

  Wang, Lihong V ^a   Yao, Junjie ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ANGIOGENESIS; BIOMEDICINE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; CELL FUNCTION; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84979979902     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3925     Document Type: Review

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