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Hand-held Clinical Photoacoustic Imaging System for Real-time Non-invasive Small Animal Imaging
Published on: October 16, 2017
Real-time in vivo photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging
Roy G M Kolkman1, Peter J Brands, Wiendelt Steenbergen
1University of Twente, Biophysical Engineering, Institute for BioMedical Technology, Faculty of Science & Technology, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. r.g.m.kolkman@utwente.nl
Abstract:
A real-time photoacoustic imaging system is designed and built. This system is based on a commercially available ultrasound imaging system. It can achieve a frame rate of 8 frames/sec. Vasculature in the hand of a human volunteer is imaged, and the resulting photoacoustic image is combined with the ultrasound image. The real-time photo acoustic imaging system with a hybrid ultrasound probe is demonstrated by imaging the branching of subcutaneous blood vessels in the hand.
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