Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging

Functional Imaging for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue-Engineered Constructs: Tracking Vascularization of Tissue-Engineered Small Intestine Scaffolds

This study uses photoacoustic imaging to non-invasively monitor vascularization in tissue-engineered small intestine scaffolds implanted in rats, showing regional differences in vascular maturity.

Acoustic Transparency Enabling Functional Ultrasound Imaging Through Mouse and Human Skulls

This paper develops an acoustic transparency method using a chelating agent to enable functional ultrasound imaging through mouse and human skulls.

High-throughput 3D super-resolution ultrasound imaging

This paper introduces FLAME, a high-throughput 3D ultrasound imaging technique that significantly improves resolution and speed for microvascular imaging in mouse organs.

Transcranial in-depth ultrafast ultrasound brain imaging in non-human primates

This paper develops a non-invasive transcranial ultrasound imaging method in non-human primates, achieving high-resolution vascular visualization and flow quantification.

Harmonic Amplitude-Modulated Singular Value Decomposition for Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging of Gas Vesicles

This paper introduces HAM-SVD, a method for ultrafast ultrasound imaging of gas vesicles that improves signal-to-background ratio compared to existing techniques.

Signal Detection of Point Targets Using Eigen-Images for Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging and Gas Vesicle Localization

The paper develops an eigen-image based method for detecting microbubbles and gas vesicles in ultrasound imaging, improving signal-to-noise ratio and localization accuracy.

Mobile Human Brain Imaging using Functional Ultrasound

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of functional ultrasound imaging (fUSi) for monitoring brain activity during real-world activities like walking over 20 months.

Selective-plane Functional Ultrasound Neuroimaging

Selective-plane functional ultrasound neuroimaging enables high-resolution, low-computational brain activity monitoring by targeting specific brain regions without moving the probe.

In vivo Online label-free monitoring of heterogenous oxygen utilization during phototherapy with real-time ultrasound guided photoacoustic imaging

This study demonstrates real-time monitoring of oxygen utilization during photodynamic therapy using ultrasound-guided photoacoustic imaging in murine tumor models.

Modelling Glomerular Filtration using Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography and a Novel Near-infrared Dye

The paper uses multispectral optoacoustic tomography and a novel near-infrared dye to measure glomerular filtration rate in healthy mice and after ischaemic reperfusion injury.

Highly reproduceable tapered fiber optoacoustic emitters by in-situ photothermal curing of PDMS for single neuron stimulation

The paper describes a method to create highly reproducible optoacoustic emitters for precise neural stimulation and demonstrates their effectiveness in vitro.

Nonlinear Singular Value Decomposition Beamforming for Ultrasound Imaging of Gas Vesicles

This paper introduces nonlinear singular value decomposition beamforming for ultrasound imaging of gas vesicles, achieving comparable sensitivity to existing methods with fewer pulse transmissions and improved signal-to-background ratio.

Miniaturized and accessible functional ultrasound imaging system for freely moving mice

This paper introduces a miniaturized functional ultrasound imaging system for freely moving mice, achieving high-resolution brain activity mapping with improved accessibility and performance.

VARS-fUSI: Variable Sampling for Fast and Efficient Functional Ultrasound Imaging using Neural Operators

VARS-fUSI improves functional ultrasound imaging efficiency by reducing sampling time and rate while maintaining signal quality and enabling cross-species generalization.

Gas Vesicle-Expressing Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Enable Multimodal Ultrasound and Optical Coherence Tomographic Imaging

This paper engineers human pluripotent stem cells to express gas vesicles, enabling noninvasive multimodal imaging via ultrasound and optical coherence tomography.

Functional Neural Connectivity of the Mouse Brain using Photoacoustic Ultrasound Imaging

This study develops a pipeline to generate brain connectomes using photoacoustic ultrasound in mice, showing comparable results to fMRI in detecting known connections.

PhysiofUS : a tissue-motion based method for heart and breathing rate assessment in neurofunctional ultrasound imaging

PhysiofUS uses ultrafast ultrasound to automatically detect heart and breathing rates from tissue motion in rodents and human neonates, validated against gold-standard electrodes.

Vascular regional analysis unveils differential responses to anti-angiogenic therapy in pancreatic xenografts through macroscopic photoacoustic imaging

This study uses macroscopic photoacoustic imaging to analyze vascular regional changes in pancreatic xenografts during anti-angiogenic therapy, identifying differential responses through vascular regional analysis.

Harmonic imaging for nonlinear detection of acoustic biomolecules

This study introduces harmonic xAM (HxAM) imaging to improve GV detection sensitivity and imaging depth in vivo.

Comprehensive Unbiased Analysis of Vascular Tissue Changes in Accelerated Atherosclerosis Using High-Resolution Ultrasound combined with Photoacoustic Imaging

This study uses high-resolution ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging to analyze vascular tissue changes in a mouse model of accelerated atherosclerosis, identifying lipid and collagen content in vein grafts.

Transcranial Brain-Wide Functional Ultrasound and Ultrasound Localization Microscopy in Mice using Multilinear Probes

This study introduces a novel transcranial whole-brain fUS and ULM technique in mice using multilinear probes, revealing vessel-level dependencies in neurovascular responses.

Capillary-scale Microvessel Imaging with High-frequency Ultrasound Localization Microscopy in Mouse Brain

This paper demonstrates that high-frequency ultrasound localization microscopy improves microvascular imaging fidelity and efficiency in mouse brains.

Multi-spectral photoacoustic imaging combined with acoustic radiation force impulse imaging for applications in tissue engineering

This paper introduces a multimodal imaging technique combining ultrasound, photoacoustic, and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging to characterize tissue-engineered scaffolds and monitor cell growth and biomechanical properties.

Broad bandwidth photoacoustic imaging using a PVDF receiver array

This paper demonstrates the use of a PVDF receiver array to improve the bandwidth of photoacoustic imaging, enabling better signal quality and integration with conventional ultrasound.

Chemigenetic far-red labels and Ca2+ indicators optimized for photoacoustic imaging.

This paper develops chemigenetic labels and calcium sensors optimized for photoacoustic imaging, showing improved performance in tissue-mimicking phantoms and in vivo applications.

Improved Spectral Inversion of Blood Oxygenation due to Reduced Tissue Scattering: Towards NIR-II Photoacoustic Imaging

This paper improves spectral inversion of blood oxygenation using NIR-II wavelengths for photoacoustic imaging, showing reduced error in sO2 measurements compared to conventional NIR-I wavelengths.

A window to the brain: ultrasound imaging of human neural activity through a permanent acoustic window

This paper introduces a permanent acoustic window for high-resolution, non-invasive ultrasound imaging of human brain activity, demonstrating its use in mapping cortical responses to finger movement.

Imaging increased metabolism in the spinal cord in mice after middle cerebral artery occlusion

The paper uses PET and MSOT to observe hypoxia and increased spinal cord metabolism in tMCAO mice compared to sham-operated mice.

Coregistered transcranial optoacoustic and magnetic resonance angiography of the human brain

This paper demonstrates noninvasive transcranial MSOT angiography in a human volunteer and validates its anatomical alignment with MRI.

High-precision neural stimulation by a highly efficient candle soot fiber optoacoustic emitter

This paper develops a candle soot fiber optoacoustic emitter for high-precision neuromodulation, achieving tenfold higher efficiency than existing carbon-based emitters.