Biomedical Optoacoustics Iv Book

	Conference Committee
	Photoacoustic monitoring and imaging of blood vessel size in vivo	1
	Photoacoustic diagnosis of burns in rats: two-dimensional photoacoustic imaging of burned tissue	7
	Photoacoustic measurement of epidermal melanin	14
	Glucose monitoring in whole blood by measuring laser-induced acoustic profiles	21
	Effects of acoustic heterogeneity on the breast thermoacoustic tomography	30
	Laser-induced photoacoustic tomography for small animals	40
	Detection of prostate cancer with optoacoustic tomography: feasibility and modeling	45
	Photoacoustic diffraction studies of planar tissue phantoms	58
	Photoacoustic imaging of inhomogeneities embedded in breast tissue phantoms	64
	Bioconjugated gold nanoparticles as a contrast agent for optoacoustic detection of small tumors	76
	Photothermal microscopy of nano-objects	86
	Multiresolution wavelet filtering and image reconstruction algorithm for optoacoustic tomography	99
	Analytical model for ultrasonic modulation of multiply scattered light: an extension from isotropic scattering to anisotropic scattering	106
	Comparison of laser-induced and classical ultrasound	118
	First investigations on the comparison of acousto-photonic imaging to imaging by photon density waves	124
	Photothermal tweezers	134
	Low-coherence interferometric detection of photothermal and photoacoustic effects in tissue	142
	High-contrast FFT acousto-optical tomography of biological tissues with a frequency-chirped modulation of the ultrasound	147
	Focused array transducer for 2D OA tomography	156
	Addendum	168
	Author Index	170