Combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of blood clot during microbubble-assisted sonothrombolysis

• Main Authors: Das, Dhiman, Pramanik, Manojit
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Engineering::Chemical engineering; Ultrasound Imaging; Photoacoustic Imaging
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92441; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49595
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Blockage of healthy blood vessels by blood clots can lead to serious or even life-threatening complications. The use of a combined ultrasound (US) and photoacoustic (PA) imaging was explored for blood clot monitoring during microbubble-assisted sonothrombolysis. PA imaging is an emerging hybrid imag...