Advances in Ultra-compact Acoustics and Photoacoustics for Scientific and Clinical Innovation
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 431
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For the last decades, biomedical acoustics and photoacoustics have thrived, with compelling and promising progress ranging extensively from basic research to clinical translation, based on their versatile imaging configuration and spatiotemporal resolution, and minimal or total non-invasiveness. In particular, their efficient implementation has been presented along with advances in electronic engineering and signal processing algorithms to enable ultracompact/wearable/implantable system configurations. This trend now opens new pathways toward novel scientific and clinical investigations, necessitating a continuous or point-of-care monitoring with morphologic/functional contrast in biological subjects. The aim of this Special Issue is to present the state-of-art progress on such advances in system developments and their scientific and clinical applications.
We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, methods, mini-reviews, and perspectives including (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Ultra-compact ultrasound and photoacoustic system developments and prototypes.
- Hardware resource/power/area-efficient system architectures for ultrasound and/or photoacoustic imaging.
- System design considerations and scientific/engineering justifications for a target application (e.g., spatial/temporal resolution, field-of-view, acoustic frequency, array size, weight, etc.).
- Signal processing algorithms to secure efficient system implementation and high spatial, temporal, and/or contrast resolution.
- Preclinical evaluations in scientific applications or translational studies.
- Clinical evaluations and applications.
Dr. Jeeun Kang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ultra-compact electronics
- biomedical imaging
- photoacoustic imaging
- ultrasound imaging
- preclinical and clinical validations
- signal processing
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