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Zhun Xu1, Changhui Li, Lihong V Wang.
Abstract
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) has been widely used to image optically absorptive objects in both human and animal tissues. For the first time, we present imaging of water with laser-based PAT. We photoacoustically measure the absorption spectra of water-ethanol mixtures at various water concentrations, and then image water-ethanol and pure-water inclusions in gel and a water inclusion in fat tissue. The significant difference in photoacoustic signals between water and fat tissue indicates that the laser-based PAT has the potential to detect water content in tissue.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20615021 PMCID: PMC2904025 DOI: 10.1117/1.3443793
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biomed Opt ISSN: 1083-3668 Impact factor: 3.170