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Handbook of Biomedical Optics
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Handbook of Biomedical Optics

by David A. Boas, Constantinos Pitris, Nimmi Ramanujam
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
831 pages
52h 39m
English
CRC Press
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21.1 Introduction to Photoacoustic
Tomography
21.1.1 Background
Photoacoustic (PA) tomography (PAT), also referred to as
optoacoustic tomography, is an emerging biomedical imaging
method based on the PA eect (Xu and Wang 2006, Li and Wang
2009, Oraevsky and Karabutov 2003). e PA eect was reported
by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880 (Bell 1880), and refers to the
generation of acoustic waves by substances being illuminated
by electromagnetic (EM) waves of varying power. e PA eect
results from the variational thermal expansion within the mate-
rial as it absorbs the EM radiative energy. Since the ability of
EM absorption reec ...
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