Photoacoustic Remote Sensing (PARS™), an all-optical, non-contact, reflection-mode, label-free biomedical imaging modality, is sensitive to optical absorption in biological tissues. Images are formed by scanning across tissue, collecting time-domain signals at each point which represent the initial pressures generated through induced thermoelastic expansion. Previously, when obtaining pixel intensity, the rich temporal and spectral content of the time-domain signals has largely been ignored. In this exploratory work, meaningful features are intelligently extracted from the time-domain signals. Based on these extracted features, attributes relevant to pixel intensity can be used to form images of improved contrast and greater detail.
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