Authors: Eleanor M. Donnelly1, Kelsey P. Kubelick2, Diego S. Dumani1,2, and Stanislav Y. Emelianov1,2 ABSTRACT Regenerative therapies using stem cells have great potential for treating neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic injuries in the spinal cord. In spite of significant research efforts, many therapies fail at the clinical phase. As stem cell technologies advance toward clinical use, […]
Tag: Photoacoustic Imaging
TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE VERASONICS RESEARCH ULTRASOUND PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPING A PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM
Authors: Karl Kratkiewicz1,4,Rayyan Manwar2,4, Yang Zhou, Moein Mozaffarzadeh3, Kamran Avanaki2 ABSTRACT Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging functional and molecular imaging technology that has attracted much attention in the past decade. Recently, many researchers have used the vantage system from Verasonics for simultaneous ultrasound (US) and photoacoustic (PA) imaging. This was the motivation to write […]
PRECLINICAL SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING PLATFORM PROVIDING CO-REGISTERED 3D MAPS OF PHOTOACOUSTIC RESPONSE AND FLUORESCENCE
Authors: Diego S. Dumani1,2, Anthony Yu1,2, Weylan Thompson3, Hans-Peter Brecht3, Vassili Ivanov3, Mark A. Anastasio4, Jason Cook5, Sergey A. Ermilov3, Stanislav Y. Emelianov1,2 ABSTRACT We report on the development of a preclinical 3D imaging platform integrating photoacoustic tomography and fluorescence (PAFT). The proposed multimodal imaging concept addresses known deficiencies in sensitivity, anatomical registration, and spatial […]
GOLD NANOPARTICLES CONJUGATED WITH DNA APTAMER FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTION OF HUMAN MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE-9
Authors: Jinhwan Kima,b, Anthony M Yua, Kelsey P. Kubelicka,b, Stanislav Y. Emelianova,b ABSTRACT Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) plays major roles in extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling and membrane protein cleavage, suggesting a high correlation with cancer cell invasion and tumor metastasis. Here, we present a contrast agent based on a DNA aptamer that can selectively target human […]
BREAKTHROUGH INSTRUMENTS AND PRODUCTS PHOTOSONUS M+ LASER FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING
Authors: Aldas Juronis and Mantvydas JaĊĦinskas ABSTRACT This report highlights PhotoSonus M+, a tunable wavelength laser system recently introduced and developed specifically for photoacoustic imaging applications, where the highest imaging depth and resolution are required. Click HERE to view publication
PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING FOR IN VIVO QUANTIFICATION OF ALCOHOL-INDUCED STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHANGES IN CEREBRAL VASCULATURE IN HIGH ALCOHOL-PREFERRING MICE (HAP)
Authors: Augustine Meombe Mbolle, Hao Yang, Huabei Jiang* ABSTRACT Alcohol-induced structural and functional changes were studied in vivo by photoacoustic tomography (PAT) of the cerebrovascular system in selectively bred alcohol-preferring mice. High (HAP) and low (LAP) alcohol-preferring mice are replicate lines of mice selectively bred to prefer 10% (v/v) ethanol to water and water to […]
TRANSFONTANELLE PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING: ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER SELECTION ANALYSIS
Authors: Rayyan Manwar,1,4,5; Tarikul Islam, MD1,6; Seyed Mohsen Ranjbaran,2,4,7; Kamran Avanaki,1,3,8 ABSTRACT Transfontanelle ultrasound imaging (TFUI) is the conventional approach for diagnosing brain injury in neonates. Despite being the first stage imaging modality, TFUI lacks accuracy in determining the injury at an early stage due to degraded sensitivity and specificity. Therefore, a modality like photoacoustic […]
SIZE-ADJUSTABLE RING-SHAPE PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY IMAGER IN VIVO
Author(s): Daohuai Jiang1,2,3, Yifei Xu1, Hengrong Lan1,2,3, Yuting Shen1, Yifan Zhang1,Feng Gao1, Li Liu4*, Fei Gao1,5* ABSTRACT Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) has become a novel biomedical imaging modality for scientific research and clinical diagnosis. It combines the advantages of spectroscopic optical absorption contrast and acoustic resolution with deep penetration. In this article, an imaging size-adjustable PAT […]
NON-INVASIVE PHOTOACOUSTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY OF RAT HEART ANATOMY AND FUNCTION
Author(s): Xin Tong, Li Lin, Peng Hu, Rui Cao, Yang Zhang, Joshua Olick-Gibson, Lihong V. Wang ABSTRACT Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common liver disorder worldwide, which strongly correlates to obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndromes. Complementary to mainstream liver diagnostic modalities, photoacoustic tomography (PAT) can provide high-speed images with functional optical contrast. However, PAT has not been demonstrated to […]
MONITORING NEONATAL BRAIN HEMORRHAGE PROGRESSION BY PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY
Author(s): Tianqi Shan, Hao Yang, Shixie Jiang, and Huabei Jiang ABSTRACT Neonatal brain hemorrhage (NBH) is the most common neurological disorder in neonates and its clinical interventions are very limited. Understanding the pathology of NBH by non-invasive in-vivo characterization of standardized animal models is essential for developing potential treatments. Currently, there is no suitable tool […]