Recent advances toward preclinical and clinical translation of photoacoustic tomography: A review

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Upputuri, Paul Kumar ^a   Pramanik, Manojit ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

clinical translation; optoacoustic tomography; photoacoustic computed tomography; photoacoustic tomography; preclinical imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL TRANSLATION; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRECLINICAL IMAGING;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

PHOTOACOUSTICS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRENDS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84998772507     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.22.4.041006     Document Type: Review

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