Development and application of stable phantoms for the evaluation of photoacoustic imaging instruments.

Photoacoustic imaging combines the high contrast of optical imaging with the spatial resolution and penetration depth of ultrasound. This technique holds tremendous potential for imaging in small animals and importantly, is clinically translatable. At present, there is no accepted standard physical...

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Main Authors: Sarah E Bohndiek, Sandhya Bodapati, Dominique Van De Sompel, Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Sanjiv S Gambhir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3783368?pdf=render