Photoacoustic Imaging for Medical Diagnostics — Carolyn L. Bayer, Geoffrey P. Luke, and Stanislav Y. Emelianov
Their goal is to explore the feasibility of
photoacoustic imaging for the diagnosis of cervical cancer, he added.
Not exact matches
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.
«Our ultimate goal is to develop an endoscopic
photoacoustic imaging probe scanning the cervical canal, which would be a quicker, cheaper and non-invasive method
for the diagnosis of cervical cancer,» Xiao said.
Now a team of researchers from Central South University in China have demonstrated that a technique known as
photoacoustic imaging, which is already under investigation
for detecting skin or breast cancers and
for monitoring therapy, also has the potential to be a new, faster, cheaper and non-invasive method to detect, diagnose and stage cervical cancer with high accuracy.
Several years ago, researchers from the University of Twente joined forces with a number of companies to develop a prototype
for a machine that would combine ultrasound and
photoacoustics medical
imaging techniques.
Photoacoustic imaging and temperature measurement
for photothermal cancer therapy.
Gold Nanocages as Contrast Agents
for Photoacoustic Imaging, Contrast Media Molecular
Imaging (2011).
For advanced
imaging applications such as optical fluorescence tomography and
photoacoustic (or optoacoustic) tomography the effective diagnostic and therapeutic window is in the 650 — 900 nm range [6].