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Photoacoustic imaging

Fast capturing of deep blood flow

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Photoacoustic tomography can image fast haemodynamics by either exploiting the spatial heterogeneity of blood or by leveraging a single laser pulse and a single element functioning as thousands of virtual detectors.

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Fig. 2: PACTER.

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    Rongkang Gao, Zhiqiang Xu & Chengbo Liu

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