title: Photoacoustic Doppler effect from flowing small light-absorbing particles.
abstract: From the flow of a suspension of micrometer-scale carbon particles, the photoacoustic Doppler shift is observed. As predicted theoretically, the observed Doppler shift equals half of that in Doppler ultrasound and does not depend on the direction of laser illumination. This new physical phenomenon provides a basis for developing photoacoustic Doppler flowmetry, which can potentially be used for detecting fluid flow in optically scattering media and especially low-speed blood flow of relatively deep microcirculation in biological tissue.
authors.affiliation: Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Dr., St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Konstantin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maslov
authors.forename: Lihong V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D004301:Doppler Effect; D017078:Laser-Doppler Flowmetry; D008027:Light; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D014465:Ultrasonics; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D014867:Water; D002244:Carbon