ArticlePhotoacoustics2023
Mitigating skin tone bias in linear array
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- Photoacoustic Imaging in Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Skin Diseases: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Pigmentation-dependent skin injury thresholds with nanosecond single-pulse laser exposure.Journal of biomedical optics · 2026Article
- The confounding effects of skin colour in photoacoustic imaging.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Melanin-corrected absolute tissue oxygen saturation estimation via hybrid transmittance-reflectance spectroscopy.Biomedical optics express · 2026Article
- Radon-full-waveform inversion for suppressing scalp reverberation and skull-induced aberration in transcranial photoacoustic computed tomography.Photoacoustics · 2026Article
- Impact of skin pigmentation on photoacoustic tomography: a phantom study.Biophotonics discovery · 2026Article
- Feasibility of the photoacoustic detection of haemophilia-related microbleeds: a preclinical study using isolated pig limbs.Thrombosis journal · 2026Article
- Motion-based dynamic light delivery to minimize laser-related thermal damage while preserving photoacoustic image quality.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Article
- Enhanced clinical photoacoustic vascular imaging through a skin localization network and adaptive weighting.Photoacoustics · 2025Article
- A primer on current status and future opportunities of clinical optoacoustic imaging.Npj imaging · 2025Review
- Quantitative volumetric photoacoustic assessment of vasoconstriction by topical corticosteroid application in mice skin.Photoacoustics · 2024Article
- Enhancing image reconstruction in photoacoustic imaging using spatial coherence mean-to-standard-deviation factor beamforming.Biomedical optics express · 2024Article
- Impact of skin tone on target size detectability in photoacoustic breast imaging.Biophotonics discovery · 2024Article
- Deep tissue photoacoustic imaging with light and sound.Npj imaging · 2024Review
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has the potential to deliver non-invasive diagnostic information. However, skin tone differences bias PA target visualization, as the elevated optical absorption of melanated skin decreases optical fluence within the imaging plane and increases the presence of acoustic clutter. This paper demonstrates that short-lag spatial coherence (SLSC) beamforming mitigates this bias. PA data from the forearm of 18 volunteers were acquired with 750-, 810-, and 870-nm wavelengths. Skin tones ranging from light to dark were objectively quantified using the individual typology angle (ITA
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