Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 6, 609(2010)

High-resolution photoacoustic microscope for rat brain imaging in vivo

Xiaoquan Yang1, Xin Cai1, Konstantin Maslov2, Lihong Wang1,2,3, and Qingming Luo4、*
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  • 1Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, 63130-4899, USA
  • 3[in Chinese]
  • 4Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China:
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    A reflection-mode photoacoustic microscope (PAM) for rat brain imaging in vivo is constructed. A pulsed laser is used as an excitation source, and a focused ultrasound transducer is adopted to collect the photoacoustic signal. Raster scanning is applied to acquire three-dimensional (3D) data. The obtained measurements of the lateral and axial resolutions of the microscope are 45 and 15 \mu m, respectively. The imaging depth in the chicken breast tissue is 3.1 mm at a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 20 dB without any signal averaging. The imaging speed is 30 A-line/s. Experimental results in vivo demonstrate the capability of 3D imaging of the brain vessels of the rat after removing the skull.

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    Xiaoquan Yang, Xin Cai, Konstantin Maslov, Lihong Wang, Qingming Luo. High-resolution photoacoustic microscope for rat brain imaging in vivo[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(6): 609

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Nov. 19, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jun. 22, 2010

    The Author Email: Qingming Luo (qluo@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL20100806.0609

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