Sentences with phrase «called photoacoustic»

Through the development of a technique called photoacoustic tomography, Wang was able to conquer this limit and advance the imaging depth by nearly two orders of magnitude, from one millimeter to several centimeters, an improvement that could enable doctors to acquire high - resolution images through a patient's skin using light.

The team that included Gary Baker, an assistant professor of chemistry in the MU College of Arts and Science and Gerardo Gutierrez - Juarez, a professor and investigator at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico, decided to supplement an emerging technique called photoacoustic (PA) spectroscopy, a specialized optical technique that is used to probe tissues and cells non-invasively.

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By processing all of the photoacoustic imaging data with computer programs, scientists obtain a 2 - D en - face photoacoustic image called a depth maximum amplitude projection (DMAP) image, which shows the optical absorption distribution or photoacoustic contrast of the sample.

The technology, called 3 - D photoacoustic microscopy (PAM), bombards tissue with a laser beam.