US Patent Issued to Duke University on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for photoacoustic microscopy" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,060, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for photoacoustic microscopy" was invented by Junjie Yao (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing an ultrafast functional photoacoustic microscopy system are disclosed herein. Such systems are configured to enable the imaging of microvasculature and functional dynamics of tissue samples with a broad field of view and high spatial resolution. According to several disclosed embodiments, a combination of a Raman path and a polygon scanner in water immersion and air immersion environments enables rapid imaging ...