However, ultrasound has limitations as a predictor of preterm birth, as it does not provide important information on changes in cervical tissue in the antepartum phase just before childbirth. (sciencedaily.com)
In each experiment, researchers embedded one piece of normal cervical tissue and one piece of cervical lesion from the same person in a cylindrical phantom for simultaneous photoacoustic imaging. (sciencedaily.com)
In this paper, the researchers describe how they examined 30 cervical tissue samples with photoacoustic imaging. (sciencedaily.com)