TY - JOUR
T1 - Deep tissue optoacoustic imaging of polarized structures
AU - Razansky, Daniel
AU - Vinegoni, Claudio
AU - Ntziachristos, Vasilis
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The ability to image polarization-selective tissue structures may provide valuable information on tissue anatomy, morphogenesis, and disease progression. So far, intensive light scattering in biological medium has limited implementation of polarization imaging to superficial tissue layers. We suggest overcoming the scattering problem using polarization-sensitive optoacoustic imaging. Due to intrinsically high spatial resolution and sensitivity of the method, it holds promise of becoming highly accurate modality for interrogation of small polarized structures deep in biological tissues. We show initial tomographic results in tissue-mimicking phantoms having polarization dichroism contrast.
AB - The ability to image polarization-selective tissue structures may provide valuable information on tissue anatomy, morphogenesis, and disease progression. So far, intensive light scattering in biological medium has limited implementation of polarization imaging to superficial tissue layers. We suggest overcoming the scattering problem using polarization-sensitive optoacoustic imaging. Due to intrinsically high spatial resolution and sensitivity of the method, it holds promise of becoming highly accurate modality for interrogation of small polarized structures deep in biological tissues. We show initial tomographic results in tissue-mimicking phantoms having polarization dichroism contrast.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=66249102986&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.810605
DO - 10.1117/12.810605
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:66249102986
SN - 1605-7422
VL - 7177
JO - Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
JF - Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
M1 - 71770M
T2 - Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2009
Y2 - 25 January 2009 through 28 January 2009
ER -