High-speed intravascular photoacoustic imaging of lipid-laden atherosclerotic plaque enabled by a 2-kHz barium nitrite raman laser

Affiliations

• ¹ Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906, USA.
• ² Department of Biomedical Engineering, NIH Ultrasonic Transducer Resource Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA.
• ³ 1] Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906, USA [2] Spectral Energy, LLC, Dayton, Ohio, 45431, USA.
• ⁴ 1] Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA [2] Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, California 92612, USA and Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
• ⁵ Physics Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47906, USA.
• ⁶ Spectral Energy, LLC, Dayton, Ohio, 45431, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Cellular &Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.