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  • adjective of, or relating to photoacoustics

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  • Ph. D., and including Gregory Lanza, M.D., and Samuel Wickline, M.D., both members of the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, has developed "soft" gold nanoparticles that accumulate in sentinel lymph nodes and that are visible using a technique known as photoacoustic imaging.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • A promising new technique called photoacoustic tomography (PAT) can overcome these problems.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • A promising new technique called photoacoustic tomography (PAT) can overcome these problems.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • On the hint: Alexander Graham Bell discovered the photoacoustic effect, turning it into, what else, a telephone.

    Bunny's got a new puzzler EliRabett 2010

  • Lihong Wang from Washington University presented some fantastic results on photoacoustic imaging in a plenary talk at the conference, bedazzling the audience with beautiful image after beautiful image.

    Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011

  • In the original photoacoustic imaging technique, the image resolution was about the same as that of ultrasound.

    Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011

  • So, instead of flooding the tissue with light and getting image resolution on the order of the acoustic wavelength, you can focus the light and use the photoacoustic signal as a contrast mechanism for distinguishing absorption at the scale of the wavelength of light.

    Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011

  • What Wang has shown is that, with a bit of imagination, a flexible attitude, and a huge amount of work, photoacoustic imaging can be made into an all-singing, all-dancing imaging modality.

    Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011

  • By putting a photoacoustic imaging system into an endoscope, Wang has shown that you can get up close and personal with various body parts.

    Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011

  • The imaging technique is based on the photoacoustic effect discovered by Alexander Graham Bell

    Medindia Health News 2010

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