School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Phys Med Biol. 2021 Feb 26;66(5). doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/abd669.
Photoacoustic imaging-a hybrid biomedical imaging modality finding its way to clinical practices. Although the photoacoustic phenomenon was known more than a century back, only in the last two decades it has been widely researched and used for biomedical imaging applications. In this review we focus on the development and progress of the technology in the last decade (2011-2020). From becoming more and more user friendly, cheaper in cost, portable in size, photoacoustic imaging promises a wide range of applications, if translated to clinic. The growth of photoacoustic community is steady, and with several new directions researchers are exploring, it is inevitable that photoacoustic imaging will one day establish itself as a regular imaging system in the clinical practices.
光声成像是一种正在走向临床实践的混合生物医学成像模式。尽管光声现象早在一个多世纪前就已为人所知，但直到最近二十年，它才被广泛研究并用于生物医学成像应用。在这篇综述中，我们专注于该技术在过去十年（2011-2020 年）的发展和进步。光声成像变得越来越用户友好、成本更低、体积更小、更便携，如果能够转化为临床应用，它将有望得到广泛应用。光声成像领域的发展是稳定的，随着研究人员探索的几个新方向，光声成像是必然的，它将有一天成为临床实践中的常规成像系统。
