Pulsed laser diode based photoacoustic tomography system using multiple acoustic reflector based single element ultrasound transducers

• Main Authors: Kalva, Sandeep Kumar, Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Dienzo, Rhonnie Austria, Pramanik, Manojit
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Pulsed Laser Diode; Engineering::Chemical engineering; Acoustic Reflector
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102653; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49903
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Conventional photoacoustic tomography (PAT) systems use bulky, expensive Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers which limits its usage in clinics. The low repetition rate of these lasers makes them not suitable for real-time imaging as well. Compact pulsed laser diodes (PLD) are being currently used for PAT syste...