Publications related to Photoacoustic imaging

Practical computational imaging by use of spatiotemporal light modulation: from simulations to applications in biological microscopy

Optical microscopy is an essential tool for biologists, who are often faced with the need to overcome the spatial and temporal resolution limitations of their devices to capture finer details. As upgrading imaging hardware is expensive, computational metho ...

EPFL2023

2.5 Hz sample rate time-domain near-infrared optical tomography based on SPAD-camera image tissue hemodynamics

Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner, Martin Wolf, Jingjing Jiang

Tim-domain near-infrared optical tomography (TD NIROT) techniques based on diffuse light were gaining performance over the last years. They are capable of imaging tissue at several centimeters depth and reveal clinically relevant information, such as tissu ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2022

Superluminal Motion-Assisted Four-Dimensional Light-in-Flight Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Ming-Lo Wu, Kazuhiro Morimoto

Advances in high-speed imaging techniques have opened new possibilities for capturing ultrafast phenomena such as light propagation in air or through media. Capturing light in flight in three-dimensional xyt space has been reported based on various types o ...

American Physical Society2021

Optical phase contrast imaging of human retinal cells by changing the tissue refractive index

Christophe Moser, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk, Mathieu Künzi

Purpose : Based on oblique partially coherent illumination of transparent samples, we developed a simple custom Optical Phase Imaging (OPI) microscope providing a label-free, semi-quantitative phase contrast imaging. The aim of this study was to explore th ...

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2020

Learning approaches to high-fidelity optical diffraction tomography

Joowon Lim

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) provides us 3D refractive index (RI) distributions of transparent samples. Since RI values differ across different materials, they serve as endogenous contrasts. It, therefore, enables us to image without pre-processing ...

EPFL2020

Imaging from Echoes: On Inverse Problems in Ultrasound

Adrien Georges Jean Besson

Ultrasound (US) imaging is currently living a revolution. On the one hand, ultrafast US imaging, a novel way of acquiring and producing US images, has paved the way to several advanced imaging modes, e.g. shear-wave elastography, ultrafast Doppler imaging ...

EPFL2018

Optical projection tomography for whole organ imaging

David Nguyen

In the past twenty years, far-reaching studies of molecular and cellular processes have reached a milestone in their maturation, and the knowledge from these studies was ready to apply at higher organizational levels. At that time, rodent models were long ...

EPFL2019

Label-free three-dimensional imaging of Caenorhabditis elegans with visible optical coherence microscopy

Johan Auwerx, Theo Lasser, Laurent Mouchiroud, Paul James Marchand, Arno Pino Bouwens, Vincenzo Sorrentino, Séverine Coquoz, Daniel Pawel Szlag

Fast, label-free, high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging platforms are crucial for high-throughput in vivo time-lapse studies of the anatomy of Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most commonly used model organisms in biomedical research. Despite the ne ...

Public Library of Science2017

Optical projection tomography for rapid whole mouse brain imaging

Theo Lasser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Jessica Sordet, Paul James Marchand, Arielle Louise Planchette, David Nguyen, Miguel Sison, Jérôme Extermann, Antonio Lopez, Marcin Antoni Sylwestrzak, Julia Sophie Katarina Nilsson

In recent years, three-dimensional mesoscopic imaging has gained significant importance in life sciences for fundamental studies at the whole-organ level. In this manuscript, we present an optical projection tomography (OPT) method designed for imaging of ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Inexpensive 1024-Channel 3D Telesonography System on FPGA

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Damien Doy, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

Volumetric ultrasound (US) is a very promising development of medical US imaging. An under-exploited advantage of volumetric US is the mitigation of the strict probe positioning constrains necessary to acquire 2D scans, potentially allowing the decoupling ...

IEEE2017

Optical Tomographic Image Reconstruction Based on Beam Propagation and Sparse Regularization

Michaël Unser, Cédric René Jean Vonesch, Demetri Psaltis, Ulugbek Kamilov

Optical tomographic imaging requires an accurate forward model as well as regularization to mitigate missing-data artifacts and to suppress noise. Nonlinear forward models can provide more accurate interpretation of the measured data than their linear coun ...

2016

A Point-Spread-Function-Aware Filtered Backprojection Algorithm for Focal-Plane-Scanning Optical Projection Tomography

Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling

Traditional optical projection tomography requires the use of low numerical aperture objectives in order to achieve a large depth of field and approximate parallel projection geometry. However, low NA objectives suffer from poor resolution, resulting in bl ...

2016

Extension of ultrasound Fourier slice Imaging theory to sectorial acquisition

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Adrien Georges Jean Besson, Olivier Bernard

Ultrasound image reconstruction from the echoes received by an ultrasound probe after the transmission of diverging waves is an active area of research because of its capacity to insonify at ultra-high frame rate with large regions of interest using small ...

2015

Eigensensing And Deconvolution For The Reconstruction Of Heat Absorption Profiles From Photoacoustic Tomography Data

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Zafer Dogan

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a relatively recent imaging modality that is promising for breast cancer detection and breast screening. It combines the high intrinsic contrast of optical radiation with acoustic imaging at submillimeter spatial resolutio ...

Ieee2013

Application of a New Sensing Principle for Photoacoustic Imaging of Point Absorbers

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Zafer Dogan, Ivana Jovanovic

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a hybrid imaging method, which combines ultrasonic and optical imaging modalities, in order to overcome their respective weaknesses and to combine their strengths. It is based on the reconstruction of optical absorption pr ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

A Box Spline Calculus for the Discretization of Computed Tomography Reconstruction Problems

Michaël Unser, Masih Nilchian

B-splines are attractive basis functions for the continuous-domain representation of biomedical images and volumes. In this paper, we prove that the extended family of box splines are closed under the Radon transform and derive explicit formulae for their ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

A Box Spline Calculus for Computed Tomography

Michaël Unser

B-splines are attractive basis functions for the continuous-domain representation of biomedical images and volumes. In this paper, we prove that the extended family of box splines are closed under the Radon transform and derive explicit formulae for their ...

IEEE2010

Extended Focus Optical Coherence Microscopy : Theory and Application

Martin Villiger

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an interferometric imaging technique that can provide depth resolved cross-sectional views of biological tissue. OCT employs light with low temporal and yet high spatial coherence. The sample is illuminated point by po ...

EPFL2010

Acoustic tomography for scalar and vector fields: theory and application to temperature and wind estimation

Martin Vetterli, Luciano Sbaiz, Ivana Jovanovic

Acoustic tomography is a type of inverse problem. The idea of estimating physical quantities that influence sound propagation by measuring the parameters of propagation has proven to be successful in many practical domains, including temperature and wind e ...

2009

Inverse problems in acoustic tomography : theory and applications

Ivana Jovanovic

Acoustic tomography aims at recovering the unknown parameters that describe a field of interest by studying the physical characteristics of sound propagating through the considered field. The tomographic approach is appealing in that it is non-invasive and ...

EPFL2008