| Abstrakt: |
Photoacoustic imaging has the potential to provide real-time, non-invasive diagnosis of numerous prevalent diseases, due to the technology's unique ability to visualize molecular changes deep within living tissue with spatial resolution comparable to ultrasound. Photoacoustic imaging is a hybrid imaging technique that combines the contrast capabilities and spectral sensitivities of optical imaging with the resolution and tissue penetration capabilities of ultrasound. Today, many in vivo demonstrations of photoacoustic imaging of biomedical applications relevant to medical diagnostics exist, including cancer, brain vasculature and function, cardiovascular, and tissue engineering scaffolds, prompting translational advances in clinical photoacoustic imaging. Because of the potential to perform realtime, non-invasive in vivo functional and molecular imaging, photoacoustic imaging is increasingly being applied as both a clinical and preclinical method aimed at improving medical diagnostics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
