Feasibility of noncontact piezoelectric detection of photoacoustic signals in tissue-mimicking phantoms

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Authors
  • R.G.M. Kolkman
  • E. Blomme
  • T. Cool
  • M. Bilcke
  • T.G. van Leeuwen
  • W. van Steenbergen
  • K.A. Grimbergen
  • G.J. den Heeten
Publication date 2010
Journal Journal of Biomedical Optics
Volume | Issue number 15 | 5
Pages (from-to) 055011
Organisations
  • Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA)
Abstract The feasibility of air-coupled ultrasound transducers to detect laser-induced ultrasound from artificial blood vessels embedded in an optically scattering phantom is demonstrated. These air-coupled transducers allow new applications in biomedical photoacoustic imaging where contact with tissue is not preferred. One promising application of such transducers is the addition of photoacoustic imaging to the regular x-ray mammographic screening procedure. (C) 2010 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. [DOI: 10.1117/1.3491113]
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3491113
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