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. 2022 Feb 4;14(2):362. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14020362

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Schematic representation of the basic principles of photoacoustic imaging. The tissue with cancer cells (green cells) is irradiated with pulsed electromagnetic radiation, which is absorbed by a photo absorber, to produce sound waves that are detected by a focused ultrasonic transducer.