Opto-Acoustic Imaging Improves Lab Rat Visualization

Seno Medical, the company responsible for developing an opto-acoustical imaging modality that uses lasers to acoustically excite tissue, is bringing the technology to the real world. Partnering with VisualSonics, a maker of specialty ultrasound systems, the technology is to be introduced into VisualSonics’ Vevo imaging platform for preclinical small animal trials.

From the press release:

Seno’s small animal (preclinical) opto-acoustic technology is designed to enable researchers to non-invasively detect and monitor biological structures, functions and processes at the cellular and molecular level. It is the first new functional technology developed in 30 years. (Other examples of functional technology are fMRI and PET.) This technology uniquely images angiogenic growth of a tumor and reveals the oxygen saturation within the tumor, thus providing functional information.

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