A Review of Optical Ultrasound Imaging Modalities for Intravascular Imaging

Recent advances in medical imaging include integrating photoacoustic and optoacoustic techniques with conventional modalities. The developments the latter have led to use of optics combined ultrasound technique for intravascular tissues applied different areas human body. Conventional is a skin contact-based method used imaging. It does not expose patients harmful radiation compared other such as Computerised Tomography (CT) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans. On hand, optical Ultrasound (OpUS) provides new way viewing internal organs body by using an eye-safe laser range. OpUS mostly binary measurements since they do require be resolved at much higher resolution but can check Various signal processing reconstruction methodologies exist Photo-Acoustic Imaging, their applicability bioimaging explored this paper.