News tagged with photoacoustics

Detecting cancer with lasers has limited use, researchers say

One person dies every hour from melanoma skin cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. A technique, known as photoacoustics, can find some forms of melanoma even if only a few ...

Cancer Jul 30, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Photoacoustic tomography can 'see' in color and detail several inches beneath the skin

Every new imaging technology has an aura of magic about it because it suddenly reveals what had been concealed, and makes visible what had been invisible. So, too, with photoacoustic tomography, which is allowing ...

Medical research Mar 22, 2012 | 4.9 / 5 (8) | 0 |