Laser-scanning photoacoustic microscopy with ultrasonic phased array transducer

Fan Zheng; Xiangyang Zhang; Chi Tat Chiu; Bill L. Zhou; K. Kirk Shung; Hao F. Zhang; Shuliang Jiao

doi:10.1364/BOE.3.002694

Laser-scanning photoacoustic microscopy with ultrasonic phased array transducer

Fan Zheng, Xiangyang Zhang, Chi Tat Chiu, Bill L. Zhou, K. Kirk Shung, Hao F. Zhang, Shuliang Jiao^*

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Biomedical Engineering

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In this paper, we report our latest progress on proving the concept that ultrasonic phased array can improve the detection sensitivity and field of view (FOV) in laser-scanning photoacoustic microscopy (LS-PAM). A LS-PAM system with a one-dimensional (1D) ultrasonic phased array was built for the experiments. The 1D phased array transducer consists of 64 active elements with an overall active dimension of 3.2 mm × 2 mm. The system was tested on imaging phantom and mouse ear in vivo. Experiments showed a 15 dB increase of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) when beamforming was employed compared to the images acquired with each single element. The experimental results demonstrated that ultrasonic phased array can be a better candidate for LS-PAM in high sensitivity applications like ophthalmic imaging.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2694-2698
Number of pages	5
Journal	Biomedical Optics Express
Volume	3
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.3.002694
State	Published - Nov 1 2012

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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