Desmond Hirson,Andrew Needles,Pinhas Ephrat,Nicholas Christopher Chaggares
申请号：
US13695275
公开号：
US20130190591A1
申请日:
2011.04.29
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
The invention disclosed herein features a photoacoustic scan head that includes laser fibers integrated into the housing of an arrayed ultrasound transducer using an optically transparent epoxy or other resin. The light-emitting ends of the fibers are positioned adjacent to the front surface of the transducer and direct laser light onto a subject being scanned by the transducer. The light beams generated by the fibers may be angled to intersect the acoustic field generated by the transducer so as to generate a photoacoustic effect in the region scanned by the transducer.
