Photoacoustic (PA) microscopy (PAM) can image optical absorption contrast with ultrasonic spatial resolution in the optical diffusive regime. Conventionally, accurate quantification in PAM requires knowledge of the optical fluence attenuation, acoustic pressure attenuation, and detection bandwidth. We circumvent this requirement by quantifying the optical absorption coefficients from the acoust...

ao F. Zhang niversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee epartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 200 N Cramer Street ilwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 Abstract. We investigate the saturation effect, which describes the violation of the linearity between the measured photoacoustic amplitude and the object’s optical absorption coefficient in functional photoacoustic imaging when the optical absorpti...

Total absorption, defined as the net flux of energy out of a bounded region averaged over one cycle for time harmonic motion, must be non-negative when there are no sources of energy within the region. This passivity condition places constraints on the non-dimensional absorption coefficients of longitudinal and transverse waves, γL and γT, in isotropic linearly viscoelastic materials. Typically...

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This paper proposes a hybrid hyperthermia treatment system, utilizing two noninvasive modalities for treating brain tumors. The proposed system depends on focusing electromagnetic (EM) and ultrasound (US) energies. The EM hyperthermia subsystem enhances energy localization by incorporating a multichannel wideband setting and coherent-phased-array technique. A genetic algorithm based optimizatio...

First proposed in the 1970s for non-destructive testing, the modern reincarnation of photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) has major impact in bio-medicine, spanning a wide range of applications from flow cytometry and cancer research to ophthalmology, neuroimaging and cardiovascular diagnostics. The hybrid nature of PAM combining optical excitation and acoustic detection provides it with a number of ...