Photoacoustic tomography

Wang YW, Xie XY, Wang XD, Ku G, Gill KL, O Neal DP, Stoica G, Wang LV (2004b) Photoacoustic tomography of a nanoshell contrast agent in the in vivo rat brain. Nano Letters 4 1689-1692. 

Wang LV, Hu S (2012) Photoacoustic tomography in vivo imaging from organogelles to organs. Science 335 1458—1462... 

Yang, X.M., et al. Photoacoustic tomography of a rat cerebral cortex in vivo with au nanocages as an optical contrast agent. Nano Letters 7(12), 3798-3802 (2007)... 

Wang, X., et al. Noninvasive laser-induced photoacoustic tomography for structural and functional in vivo imaging of the brain. Nature Biotechnology 21(7), 803-806... 

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an emerging noninva-sive imaging technique based on NlR-induced photoacoustic... 

Figure 14.6. Photoacoustic tomography of a nude mouse before (a) and after (b) injection of GNRs. Reprinted with permission from the American Chemical Society.

G. Ku and L. V. Wang, Deeply penetrating photoacoustic tomography in biological tissues enhanced with an optical contrast agent, Ontics letters. 30(5), 507-509 (2005). 

L. C. David et al.. Photoacoustic tomography of joints aided by an etanercept-conjugated gold nanoparticle contrast agent-an ex vivo preliminary rat study. Nanotechnology, 19(9), 095101 (2008). 

Photoacoustic Tomography (PAT) is a novel hybrid imaging modality that is based on the generation of laser-induced ultrasound. PAT can provide high resolution at imaging depths on... 

Figure 15.10. Noninvasive in vivo photoacoustic tomography of a rat brain, (a) Image acquisition prior to administration of nanoshells, (b) Image acquisition 20 minutes after administration of three doses of nanoshells, and (c) Image acquisition 350 minutes after administration of three doses of nanoshells. MF - median fissure. Republished with permission from Ref. 40. Copyright 2004 American Chemical Society.

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