Abstract
Osteoporosis is a bone disease that leads to the increasing risk of bone fracture. It is associated with a reduced mineral content, which results in the change of the bone architecture. Raman spectroscopy has an intrinsic sensitivity to the chemical content of the bone, but its application to study bones in vivo is limited due to strong optical scattering in tissue. It is proposed that Raman excitation with photoacoustic detection can successfully address the problem of chemically specific imaging in deep tissue. In this report, the principal possibility of such approach is evaluated.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Multimodal Biomedical Imaging VI |
Volume | 7892 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2 2011 |
Event | Multimodal Biomedical Imaging VI - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: Jan 22 2011 → Jan 23 2011 |
Other
Other | Multimodal Biomedical Imaging VI |
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Country | United States |
City | San Francisco, CA |
Period | 1/22/11 → 1/23/11 |
Keywords
- nonlinear Raman imaging
- osteoporosis
- photoacoustics
- stimulated Raman scattering
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Biomaterials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging