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The aim of the open access Photoacoustics journal (PACS) is to publish original research and review contributions within the fast-growing field of photoacoustics-optoacoustics-thermoacoustics, which exploits acoustical and ultrasonic phenomena excited by electromagnetic radiation for purposes of detection, visualization, and characterization of a variety of materials and biological tissues, including living organisms.
Many research directions in photoacoustics, especially biomedical optoacoustic imaging experience explosive growth in the 21st century. The wealth of investigated topics indicates that this field has developed a broad range of tools for fundamental and applied research. The enormous recent progress is greatly supported by the advances in laser technologies, ultrasound detection approaches, development of inverse theory, and fast reconstruction algorithms. This progress is also driven by a large number of unmet biological and medical needs that can be addressed by the unique contrast of molecular absorption available to photoacoustic - optoacoustic - thermoacoustic methods. These include pre-clinical research and clinical imaging of vasculature, tissue and disease physiology, drug efficacy, surgery guidance, and therapy monitoring. Correspondingly applications span the entire range of medical imaging and sensing applications including cancer, vascular diseases, brain neurophysiology, ophthalmology, and diabetes. Recent technological advances enabled cell trafficking applications and measurements of a multitude of other biological functions. The multidisciplinary nature of photoacoustics - optoacoustics - thermoacoustics is also evidenced by the growing contribution from chemistry and nanotechnology where a variety of novel biodegradable materials from nanoparticles to organic dyes, to targeted agents, theranostic probes and genetically expressed markers are being actively developed. Significant enhancement of the signal-to-noise ratio and tissue contrast in photoacoustic methods has been achieved employing these advanced materials.
While some of the spectroscopic and sensing applications in non-biomedical materials have reached a mature state, Photoacoustics supports the research community that develops novel industrial and environmental applications, nondestructive evaluation of materials and new ultrawideband transducers (piezoelectric, capacitive and optical) for sensitive detection of photoacoustic - optoacoustic - thermoacoustic signals.
The list of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to) the following:
Tomography and deep-tissue imaging
Mesoscopy, microscopy, and nanoscopy
Functional and molecular imaging and sensing
Contrast agents, molecular probes, and nanoparticles
Interactions with cells and tissues
Pre-clinical imaging, clinical translation, and clinical applications
Multi-modality systems involving light and sound
Microwave induced ultrasound imaging and sensing
Laser ultrasound methods and applications
Physics and modeling of photoacoustic generation, propagation and detection
Signal processing, advanced filtering and artifact removal
Image reconstruction algorithms including deep learning
Computer assisted diagnostics based on artificial intelligence
Ultrawide-band ultrasound detectors, optical detectors of ultrasound
Novel lasers and light delivery technologies for the generation of ultrasound
Photoacoustics spectroscopy and sensing for analysis of gases, liquids and solids
Nondestructive testing of materials
Brillouin spectroscopy, sensing and imaging based on optically induced coherent acoustic waves
Keywords: PACS, photoacoustic, optoacoustic, thermoacoustic, laser ultrasound (supplemental keywords: imaging, sensing, monitoring, evaluation, tomography, microscopy, theranostics, contrast agents, nanotechnology).
Summary
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Photoacoustics is published by Elsevier GmbH
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It is an oppen access journal
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The Subject Area : Spectroscopy, Radiology and Imaging, Signal Processing, Acoustics and Ultrasonics
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