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Photoacoustic Imaging for Cancer Detection and Staging

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world. Diagnosing a cancer at its early stages of development can decrease the mortality rate significantly and reduce healthcare costs. Over the past two decades, photoacoustic imaging has seen steady growth and has demonstrated notable capabilities to detect cancerous cells and stage cancer. Furthermore, photoacoustic imaging combined with ultrasound imaging and augmented with molecular targeted contrast agents is capable of imaging cancer at the cellular and molecular level, thus opening diverse opportunities to improve diagnosis of tumors, detect circulating tumor cells and identify metastatic lymph nodes. In this paper we introduce the principles of photoacoustic imaging, and review recent developments in photoacoustic imagingas an emerging imaging modality for cancer diagnosis and staging.

Source: Current molecular imaging

DOI: 10.2174/2211555211302010010

Authors: Mohammad Mehrmohammadi, Soon Joon Yoon, Douglas Yeager, Stanislav Y. Emelianov

Institutions: Mayo Clinic, The University of Texas at Austin, Bentham Science Publishers (United Arab Emirates)

Language: English

Topic: Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering