context: in recent years, nanotechnology has opened up several new avenues of extraordinary biomedical potential by modulating metals into their nanosize leading to significant improvement in their chemical, physical and optical properties. introduction: the advanced fabrication techniques have been exploited to modify nanostructured materials. the functionalized nanoscaled fibers display vario...

1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 2 Institute for Applied Mathematics, Saarland University, Postfach 151150, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany 3 Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, 54516 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France 4Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA 5Division...

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Photoacoustic (PA) imaging, also called optoacoustic imaging, is a new biomedical imaging modality based on the use of laser-generated ultrasound that has emerged over the last decade. It is a hybrid modality, combining the high-contrast and spectroscopic-based specificity of optical imaging with the high spatial resolution of ultrasound imaging. In essence, a PA image can be regarded as an ult...

The appearance of miniaturized single-photon detectors has enabled massively parallel conversion of photons to digital signals that can be readily processed and/or transported with negligible losses. As a consequence, a new class of imaging sensors is emerging, known collectively as all-digital image sensors, for detection and processing of ultra-fast and complex photonic events, often present ...

W. Gao, P-T. Yap, H. Zhu, K. Giovanello, K. Smith, J. Gilmore, and W. Lin Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, Radiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Biostatistics and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Psychology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North CarolinaChapel Hil...

After reading this chapter, you should know the answers to these questions: 1. What makes images a challenging type of data to be processed by computers, as opposed to non-image clinical data? 2. Why are there many different imaging modalities, and by what major two characteristics do they differ? 3. How are visual and knowledge content in images represented computationally? How are these techn...

Imaging reveals complex structures and dynamic interactive processes, located deep inside the body, that are otherwise difficult to decipher. Numerous imaging modalities harness every last inch of the energy spectrum. Clinical modalities include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, and light-based methods [endoscopy and optical coherence tomography (OCT)...