Fully waterproof two-axis galvanometer scanner for enhanced wide-field optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy

Opt Lett. 2020 Feb 15;45(4):865-868. doi: 10.1364/OL.380032.

Abstract

A large field-of-view and fast scanning of photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) relatively have been difficult to obtain due to the water-drowned structure of the system for the transmission of ultrasonic signals. Researchers have widely studied the achievement of a waterproof scanner for dynamic biological applications with a high-resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio. This Letter reports a novel, to the best of our knowledge, waterproof galvanometer scanner-based PAM system with a successfully attainable ${9.0}\;{\rm mm} \times {14.5}\;{\rm mm}$9.0mm×14.5mm scan region, amplitude scan rate of 40 kHz, and spatial resolution of 4.9 µm. The in vivo characterization of a mouse brain in intact-skull microvascular visualization demonstrated its capability in biomedical imaging and is anticipated to be an effective technique for various preclinical and clinical studies.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Electric Conductivity*
  • Mechanical Phenomena*
  • Mice
  • Microscopy / instrumentation*
  • Photoacoustic Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Signal-To-Noise Ratio*
  • Water

Substances

  • Water