Photoacoustic imaging technique may improve wearable imaging devices, medical diagnostics

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A photoacoustic microscope image of blood vessels and capillaries in a mouse’s ear. Courtesy of Long Jin, PhD.

Chinese researchers developed a flexible photoacoustic imaging technique by modifying fiber optic sensors and combining laser light and ultrasound to image biological tissue, detailed in a release from The Optical Society.

Maryland's Eliot Siegel discusses AI's potential for disruption in medical imaging

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Health Imaging spoke with Eliot Siegel, MD, before this year’s SIIM Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging to learn more about challenges and opportunities related to artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging, how AI and machine learning should be incorporated into clinical applications and what the future holds for AI.