title: [Time-resolved optoacoustic technique and its applications to noninvasive monitoring of biological tissue].
abstract: Time-resolved optoacoustic technique offers a new ingredient in noninvasive monitoring of biological tissues. Due to the heterogeneous property of biotissue, different level of optical energy depositions generates different strength of the acoustic signal across the tissue. This makes it possible to probe the functional information tomographically inside the biological tissue. It becomes increasingly attractive as a hybrid non-invasive monitoring technique because it takes the advantages of high contrast feature delivered by the optical techniques and high penetration depth and resolution offered by the acoustical techniques. After a brief introduction of its theory, this paper reviews the state-of-the-art time-resolved optoacoustic methods that have been successfully applied in biomedicine, with a concentration on analytical monitoring and tomography.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Laser and Optoelectronic Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
authors.forename: Yi-xiong
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Rui-kang
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ke-xin
authors.initials: KX
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jian-quan
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Yao
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D051381:Rats; D014054:Tomography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D010100:Oxygen