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Diego Yankelevich1, J E González2, Roger S Cudney2, Luis A Ríos2, Laura Marcu3.
Abstract
We present the development of a source of deep-red radiation for photoacoustic imaging. This source, which is based on two cascaded wavelength conversion processes in aperiodically poled lithium niobate, emits 10 nanosecond pulses of over 500 µJ at 710 nm. Photoacoustic images were obtained from phantoms designed to mimic the optical and acoustic properties of oral tissue. Results indicate this device is a viable source of optical pulses for photoacoustic applications.Entities:
Keywords: (160.3730) Lithium niobate; (170.1065) Acousto-optics; (170.3880) Medical and biological imaging; (190.4223) Nonlinear wave mixing
Year: 2014 PMID: 24575341 PMCID: PMC3920877 DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.000468
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomed Opt Express ISSN: 2156-7085 Impact factor: 3.732