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SUBMITTER: Yang JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4398324 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Joon Mo JM Favazza Christopher C Yao Junjie J Chen Ruimin R Zhou Qifa Q Shung K Kirk KK Wang Lihong V LV
PloS one 20150415 4
We report photoacoustic and ultrasonic endoscopic images of two intact rabbit esophagi. To investigate the esophageal lumen structure and microvasculature, we performed in vivo and ex vivo imaging studies using a 3.8-mm diameter photoacoustic endoscope and correlated the images with histology. Several interesting anatomic structures were newly found in both the in vivo and ex vivo images, which demonstrates the potential clinical utility of this endoscopic imaging modality. In the ex vivo imagin ...[more]