All-optical pulse-echo ultrasound imaging for guiding minimally invasive procedures
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Desjardins, A.; Mosse, C.; Colchester, R.; Noimark, S.; Alles, E.; Zhang, E.; Ourselin, S.; Parkin, I.; Papakonstantinou, I.; Beard, P.; Finlay, M.
- Source
- 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2017 Conference on. :1-1 May, 2017
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optics
Ultrasonic imaging
Biotechnology
Minimally invasive surgery
Biomedical optical imaging
- Language
Recent advances in optical transmission and reception of ultrasound have enabled pulse-echo imaging using fiber-optic probes that are suitable for guiding clinical intracardiac and intravascular procedures. In vivo images from pre-clinical models will be presented.