%0 Journal Article
%T Hand-held optoacoustic imaging: A review
%A Heather K. Hunt
%A Mason W. Schellenberg
%J Archive of "Photoacoustics".
%D 2018
%R 10.1016/j.pacs.2018.07.001
%X Optoacoustic imaging is a medical imaging modality that uses optical excitation and acoustic detection to generate images of tissue structures based up optical absorption within a tissue sample. This imaging modality has been widely explored as a tool for a number of clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis and wound healing tracking. Recently, the optoacoustic imaging community has published a number of reports of hand-held optoacoustic imaging devices and platforms; these hand-held configurations improve the modality¡¯s potential for commercial clinical implementation. Here, we review recent advancements in hand-held optoacoustic imaging platforms and methods, including recent pre-clinical applications, and we present an overview of the remaining limitations in optoacoustic imaging that must be addressed to increase the translation of the modality into commercial and clinical use
%K Hand-held
%K Optoacoustic tomography
%K Photoacoustic microscopy
%K Multispectral
%K Raster scanning
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068331/