The design of smart hydrogel particles doped with plasmonic nanoparticles has attracted great in-terest in recent years due to their promising outlook in nanomedicine as therapeutic systems and bioimag-ing agents. Nanocomposite microgels were found particularly interesting as contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging (PAI), an emerging noninvasive ...
Photoacoustic imaging is a functional technique based on the creation of acoustic waves from tissues excited by an optical source (laser pulses). The illumination of a region of interest, with a range of optical wavelengths, allows the discrimination of the imaged media. This modality is promising for various medical applications in which growth, a...
Photoacoustic imaging is a functional technique based on the creation of acoustic waves from tissues excited by an optical source (laser pulses). The illumination of a region of interest, with a range of optical wavelengths, allows the discrimination of the imaged media. This modality is promising for various medical applications in which growth, a...
L’imagerie photoacoustique est une nouvelle modalité couplant imagerie optique et échographie. Non invasive, elle permet d’imager des absorbeurs optiques à quelques centimètres de profondeur et avec la résolution de l’échographie. La réception des signaux photoacoustiques se faisant à l’aide d’un échographe clinique, cette modalité hybride vient co...
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) of biological tissues tries to combine the advantages of optical and acoustical imaging. The main endogenous contrast for PAI is derived from blood vessels due to the strong absorption of hemoglobin compared to the background tissues. Furthermore, blood vessels are roughly cylindrical and hemoglobin concentration can be ...
Strong scattering properties of biological media make their optical imaging in depth a challenge. A solution to probe the local optical properties is to couple the optical information with ultrasound. Two imaging techniques were born from this idea, acousto-optic imaging and photoacoustic imaging. The first technique is based on the local modulatio...
Photoacoustic imaging is a new hybrid imaging technique that provides images of optical absorption at centimeters depth in biological tissues with the resolution of ultrasound. Exogenous contrast agents such as gold nanoparticles can also be used to enhance image contrast and image disease-specific receptors. However, there is a trade-off between r...
The present work was motivated by the development of alternative imaging techniques for breast cancer early diagnosis, that is photoacoustic imaging, which potentially couples the merits of optical imaging and ultrasound imaging, that is high optical functional contrasts brought by optical probing and high spatial resolution by ultrasound detection...
Ce travail de thèse s'inscrit dans le domaine de l'imagerie photoacoustique en tant que modalité d'imagerie prometteuse pour la médecine. Il a consisté en l'expérimentation du guidage photoacoustique de la thérapie par ultrasons focalisés de haute intensité (HIFU), et en l'étude de la génération par des agents de contraste spécifiques que sont les ...
Ce travail de thèse s'inscrit dans le domaine de l'imagerie photoacoustique en tant que modalité d'imagerie prometteuse pour la médecine. Il a consisté en l'expérimentation du guidage photoacoustique de la thérapie par ultrasons focalisés de haute intensité (HIFU), et en l'étude de la génération par des agents de contraste spécifiques que sont les ...
