Interaction Mechanisms in Acousto-Photonic Imaging

摘要

Acousto-photonic imaging (API) is a novel technique for non-invasive medical imaging that combines diffusive optical tomography with externally generated acoustic "virtual" sources to improve the resulting images. We lack, however, a detailed understanding of the nature of the interaction between the diffusive wave and the focused ultrasound. We present our ecent theoretical and experimental work on determining the mechanism for the interaction between the acoustic and the optical fields.