OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Photoacoustics is 18. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Classification and risk assessment of ovarian-adnexal lesions using parametric and radiomic analysis of co-registered ultrasound-photoacoustic tomographic images	102
Multiple diffusion models-enhanced extremely limited-view reconstruction strategy for photoacoustic tomography boosted by multi-scale priors	100
Zero-Shot Artifact2Artifact: Self-incentive artifact removal for photoacoustic imaging	96
All-fiber three-wavelength laser for functional photoacoustic microscopy	92
Photoacoustic spectrum analysis for spherical target size and optical property determination: A feasibility study	87
An extremum-guided interpolation for sparsely sampled photoacoustic imaging	83
Bornite (Cu5FeS4) nanocrystals as an ultrasmall biocompatible NIR-II contrast agent for photoacoustic imaging	81
4D spectral-spatial computational photoacoustic dermoscopy	81
UPAMNet: A unified network with deep knowledge priors for photoacoustic microscopy	78
Surface-plasmon-enhanced strain-wave-induced optical diffraction changes from a segmented grating	74
In vivo quantitative photoacoustic evaluation of the liver and kidney pathology in tyrosinemia	67
Spectral analysis of amplitude and phase echoes in picosecond ultrasonics for strain pulse shape determination	67
Myocardial infarct border demarcation by dual-wavelength photoacoustic spectral analysis	64
Dual-wavelength UV-visible metalens for multispectral photoacoustic microscopy: A simulation study	63
Hybrid transformer-CNN network-driven optical-scanning undersampling for photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy	62
Dual-modality ultrasound/photoacoustic tomography for mapping tissue oxygen saturation distribution in intestinal strangulation	57
Enhanced clinical photoacoustic vascular imaging through a skin localization network and adaptive weighting	54
Investigating the feasibility of a hand-held photoacoustic imaging probe for margin assessment during breast conserving surgery	53
Lithium Niobate – Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy	51
Editorial: Breaking the speed limits in photoacoustic microscopy	50
Evanescent wave quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy employing a side-polished fiber for methane sensing	50
Adaptive enhancement of acoustic resolution photoacoustic microscopy imaging via deep CNN prior	49
Photoacoustic/ultrasonic dual-mode imaging for monitoring angiogenesis and synovial erosion in rheumatoid arthritis	48
Understanding the near-field photoacoustic spatiotemporal profile from nanostructures	47
Harnessing evanescent photoacoustic waves for multi-domain imaging	47

Fast aberration correction in 3D transcranial photoacoustic computed tomography via a learning-based image reconstruction method	45
Image restoration for ring-array photoacoustic tomography system based on blind spatially rotational deconvolution	44
High performance filtering and high-sensitivity concentration retrieval of methane in photoacoustic spectroscopy utilizing deep learning residual networks	44
Ultra-sparse reconstruction for photoacoustic tomography: Sinogram domain prior-guided method exploiting enhanced score-based diffusion model	44
An acoustic-optic confocal probe based photoacoustic and ultrasonic tracheal endoscopy for characterizing phantom and model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	44
Dichroism-sensitive photoacoustic imaging for in-depth estimation of the optic axis in fibrous tissue	43
Optomechanical energy enhanced BF-QEPAS for fast and sensitive gas sensing	42
Multispectral optoacoustic tomography of salivary glands in patients with clinically suspected Sjögren’s disease: a pilot study	42
Ionizing radiation acoustic and ultrasound dual-modality imaging for visualization of dose on anatomical structures during radiotherapy	42
Normal and melanoma skin visualized, quantified and compared by in vivo photoacoustic imaging	42
Three-dimensional non-invasive brain imaging of ischemic stroke by integrated photoacoustic, ultrasound and angiographic tomography (PAUSAT)	42
Laser-induced ultrasound transmitters for large-volume ultrasound tomography	41
Multispectral raster-scanning optoacoustic mesoscopy differentiate lesional from non-lesional atopic dermatitis skin using structural and functional imaging markers	38
Efficient pump-probe sampling with a single-cavity dual-comb laser: Application in ultrafast photoacoustics	37
Changes in intra-nuclear mechanics in response to DNA damaging agents revealed by time-domain Brillouin micro-spectroscopy	36
LED-based photoacoustic imaging for preoperative visualization of lymphatic vessels in patients with secondary limb lymphedema	36
Kinetic cooling in mid-infrared methane photoacoustic spectroscopy: A quantitative analysis via digital twin verification	35
Doubly resonant sub-ppt photoacoustic gas detection with eight decades dynamic range	35
Simultaneous measurement of methane, propane and isobutane using a compact mid-infrared photoacoustic spectrophone	34
On-demand expansion fluorescence and photoacoustic microscopy (ExFLPAM)	33
Compact and full-range carbon dioxide sensor using photoacoustic and resonance dependent modes	33
Lightweight sparse optoacoustic image reconstruction via an attention-driven multi-scale wavelet network	33
Recent advances in optical fiber-based gas sensors utilizing light-induced acoustic/elastic techniques	32
Restoring the imaging quality of circular transducer array-based PACT using synthetic aperture focusing technique integrated with 2nd-derivative-based back projection scheme	31
Sensitivity enhanced NIR photoacoustic CO detection with SF6 promoting vibrational to translational relaxation process	31
Intra-instrument channel workable, optical-resolution photoacoustic and ultrasonic mini-probe system for gastrointestinal endoscopy	31
Deep learning assisted classification of spectral photoacoustic imaging of carotid plaques	31
Photoacoustic spectroscopy of layered crystals: An enhancement of the photoacoustic signal and its analysis from the perspective of heat generation	30
In-bore MRI-compatible transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging	30
A red-green photochromic bacterial protein as a new contrast agent for improved photoacoustic imaging	30
Multi-scenario photoacoustic endoscopy for in vivo functional imaging	30
Fully integrated photoacoustic microscopy and photoplethysmography of human in vivo	30
Model-informed deep-learning photoacoustic reconstruction for low-element linear array	29
Mapping the architecture of the temporal artery with photoacoustic imaging for diagnosing giant cell arteritis	29
Hybrid ultrasound and single wavelength optoacoustic imaging reveals muscle degeneration in peripheral artery disease	29
Gas spectroscopy – Editorial special issue photoacoustics	29
Gas concentration prediction in photoacoustic spectroscopy using PSO-EAP-CNN to address correlation degradation	29
Efficient implementations of a Born Series for computing photoacoustic field from a collection of erythrocytes	29
Compact gas cell for simultaneous detection of atmospheric aerosol optical properties based on photoacoustic spectroscopy and integrating sphere scattering enhancement	28
Small-volume highly-sensitive all-optical gas sensor using non-resonant photoacoustic spectroscopy with dual silicon cantilever optical microphones	28
A frequency-domain model-based reconstruction method for transcranial photoacoustic imaging: A 2D numerical investigation	28
Full-view LED-based optoacoustic tomography	28
Manganous-manganic oxide nanoparticle as an activatable microwave-induced thermoacoustic probe for deep-located tumor specific imaging in vivo	28
Semantic segmentation of multispectral photoacoustic images using deep learning	27
Image processing improvements afford second-generation handheld optoacoustic imaging of breast cancer patients	26
Ppbv-level mid-infrared photoacoustic sensor for mouth alcohol test after consuming lychee fruits	26
Photoacoustic methane detection inside a MEMS microphone	26
PA OmniNet: A retraining-free, generalizable deep learning framework for robust photoacoustic image reconstruction	26
Compact optical fiber photoacoustic gas sensor with integrated multi-pass cell	26
Compact photoacoustic endoscopy by measuring initial photoacoustic pressure using phase-shift interferometry	26

A high-sensitivity high-resolution intravascular photoacoustic catheter through mode cleaning in a graded-index fiber	25
Sound velocity mapping from GHz Brillouin oscillations in transparent materials by optical incidence from the side of the sample	25
Sensitivity improvement of quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy using the stochastic resonance method	25
Adaptive polarization photoacoustic computed tomography for biological anisotropic tissue imaging	25
pH-responsive ratiometric photoacoustic imaging of polyaniline nanoparticle-coated needle for targeted cancer biopsy	25
Multi-mechanism collaboration enhanced photoacoustic analyzer for trace H2S detection	25
Cantilever-enhanced dual-comb photoacoustic spectroscopy	25
High-frequency (> 65 MHz) broadband transparent transducer with ultrathin gold electrode for dual-mode photoacoustic and laser-induced ultrasound microscopy	25
Use of pattern recognition in photoacoustic imaging to identify neuronal ensembles in the prefrontal cortex of rats undergoing conditioned fear learning	24
Dual-wavelength photoacoustic imaging of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with melanoma and breast cancer	23
High resolution photoacoustic vascular image reconstruction through the fast residual dense generative adversarial network	23
Scale-equivariant deep model-based optoacoustic image reconstruction	23
Structural and functional imaging of psoriasis for severity assessment and quantitative monitoring of treatment response using high-resolution optoacoustic imaging	23
Non-invasive evaluation of endometrial microvessels via in vivo intrauterine photoacoustic endoscopy	22
Ultrasound-enhanced Unet model for quantitative photoacoustic tomography of ovarian lesions	22
Deep learning acceleration of iterative model-based light fluence correction for photoacoustic tomography	22
Characterization of H2S QEPAS detection in methane-based gas leaks dispersed into environment	21
High sensitivity and ultra-low concentration range photoacoustic spectroscopy based on trapezoid compound ellipsoid resonant photoacoustic cell and partial least square	21
Quantification of vascular networks in photoacoustic mesoscopy	21
Investigation of silk as a phantom material for ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging	21
Photoacoustic digital brain and deep-learning-assisted image reconstruction	21
Laser ultrasound wave pattern analysis for efficient defect detection in samples with curved surfaces	20
Advancing non-invasive melanoma diagnostics with deep learning and multispectral photoacoustic imaging	20
Velocimetry of GHz elastic surface waves in quartz and fused silica based on full-field imaging of pump–probe reflectometry	20
Experimental and numerical study of Conoscopic Interferometry sensitivity for optimal acoustic pulse detection in ultrafast acoustics	20
Local oxygen concentration reversal from hyperoxia to hypoxia monitored by optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy in inflammation-resolution process	20
In vivo photothermal therapy monitored by multi-position calibrated photoacoustic thermometer	19
Dual-comb quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy	19
Fast iterative reconstruction for photoacoustic tomography using learned physical model: Theoretical validation	19
High-resolution photoacoustic microscopy with deep penetration through learning	19
Collagen fibers quantification for liver fibrosis assessment using linear dichroism photoacoustic microscopy	19
Elastic and thermo-elastic characterizations of thin resin films using colored picosecond acoustics and spectroscopic ellipsometry	19
Detection of weak optical absorption by optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy	19
Freehand scanning photoacoustic microscopy with simultaneous localization and mapping	18
Application of multispectral optoacoustic tomography for lower limb musculoskeletal sports injuries in adults	18
Artifacts in photoacoustic imaging: Origins and mitigations	18
Real-time monitoring of NIR-triggered drug release from phase-changeable nanodroplets by photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging	18
Extreme ultraviolet transient gratings: A tool for nanoscale photoacoustics	18
Ultrasound-guided needle tracking with deep learning: A novel approach with photoacoustic ground truth	18
Spectroscopic photoacoustic microscopic imaging during single spatial scan using broadband excitation light pulses with wavelength-dependent time delay	18
Numerical and in vitro experimental studies for assessing the blood hematocrit and oxygenation with the dual-wavelength photoacoustics	18
Tomographic reconstruction of picosecond acoustic strain pulses using automated angle-scan probing with visible light	18
Multivariate analysis and digital twin modelling: Alternative approaches to evaluate molecular relaxation in photoacoustic spectroscopy	18
Mid-infrared intracavity quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy with pptv – Level sensitivity using a T-shaped custom tuning fork	18
Residual-conditioned sparse transformer for photoacoustic image artifact reduction	18
Photoacoustic nanodroplets for oxygen enhanced photodynamic therapy of cancer	18
High spectral energy density all-fiber nanosecond pulsed 1.7 μm light source for photoacoustic microscopy	18
Diagnosis of liver fibrosis and liver function reserve through non-invasive multispectral photoacoustic imaging	18
Pre-transplant kidney quality evaluation using photoacoustic imaging during normothermic machine perfusion	18
The IPASC data format: A consensus data format for photoacoustic imaging	18