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. 2020 Sep 30;20(19):5605. doi: 10.3390/s20195605

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Schematic mechanism of photoacoustic effect and imaging. Tissue constituents absorb pulsed near infrared laser and undergo thermoelastic expansions, which generate ultrasound signals that can be then detected by ultrasound detector. Reprinted from [60] under CC BY 4.0. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).