1725-nm HOPE for segmentation-enabled quantitative photoacoustic microscopy of intrahepatic lipids

Najia Sharmin; Huajun Tang; Chandra Jinata; Ningbo Chen; Bingfeng Li; Nikki Pui Yue Lee; Yitian Tong; Kenneth K. Y. Wong

doi:10.1364/PRJ.553103

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 7, 1810(2025)

1725-nm HOPE for segmentation-enabled quantitative photoacoustic microscopy of intrahepatic lipids

Najia Sharmin1... Huajun Tang1, Chandra Jinata1,2, Ningbo Chen1, Bingfeng Li3, Nikki Pui Yue Lee3, Yitian Tong1,4,*, and Kenneth K. Y. Wong1,25,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

²Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Center, Hong Kong SAR, China

³Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

⁴e-mail: tongyt89@hku.hk

⁵e-mail: kywong@eee.hku.hk

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