Fan-shaped scanning approach for miniaturized photoacoustic tomography
Funding information: National Institutes of Health, Grant/Award Number: R01 EB020601
Abstract
We describe a novel scanning approach for miniaturized photoacoustic tomography (PAT), based on fan-shaped scanning of a single transducer at one or two discrete positions. This approach is tested and evaluated using several phantom and animal experiments. The results obtained show that this new scanning approach provides high image quality in the configuration of miniaturized handheld or endoscopic PAT with improved effective field of view and penetration depth.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare no financial or commercial conflict of interest.
Open Research
DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.