Special issue introduction: Photoacoustic microscopy

First proposed in the 1970s for non-destructive testing, the modern reincarnation of photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) has major impact in bio-medicine, spanning a wide range of applications from flow cytometry and cancer research to ophthalmology, neuroimaging and cardiovascular diagnostics. The hybrid nature of PAM combining optical excitation and acoustic detection provides it with a number of key advantages over both optical and acoustic microscopy, including versatile optical absorption contrast and high scalability of imaging depth and spatial resolution. The current special issue encompasses broad aspects of PAM with contributions from the photon plus ultrasound research community on new technical developments, biomedical applications and review of state-of-the-art.

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