Photoacoustics: a historical review
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: We review the history of photoacoustics from the discovery in 1880 that modulated light produces acoustic waves to the current time, when the pulsed variant of the discovery is fast developing into a powerful biomedical imaging modality. We trace the meandering and fascinating passage of the effect along several conceptual and methodological trajectories to several variants of the method, each with its set of proposed applications. The differences in mechanisms between the intensity modulated effect and the pulsed version are described in detail. We also learn the several names given to the effect, and trace the modern-day divide in nomenclature.
Source: Advances in Optics and Photonics
DOI: 10.1364/aop.8.000586
Authors: Srirang Manohar, Daniel Razansky
Language: English
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: Human Frontier Science Program, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, Radboud Universiteit, National Institutes of Health, European Research Council, Pioneers in Health Care Innovation Fund, University of Twente, National Eye Institute
OpenAlex ID: W2534948625