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. 2021 Jan 29;12:716. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-20947-5

Fig. 5. Case #1 of in vivo spectroscopic imaging for GNR injection into a mouse right leg muscle.

Fig. 5

Effects of motion artifacts on quantitative PA measurements are illustrated. a Experimental setup. b Inter-wavelength motion artifacts during nanoparticle injection (See movements in B-mode images with wavelength). Inter-wavelength motion vector is estimated from two successive B-mode images using PatchMatch-based speckle tracking, and then accumulated over each wavelength sequence to produce the final motion-corrected PA images. For easy visualization, vectors are spatially decimated. c The original uncompensated wavelength-compounded Σλ-PAUS (left) and corresponding GNR-weighted PA (right) images. Motion artifacts corrupt GNR-weighted PA images as the needle is not rejected. d The needle is completely rejected in GNR-weighted PA images and GNR detectability is also improved in motion-corrected images.