Method and system for 3-d acoustic microscopy using short pulse excitation and 3-d acoustic microscope for use therein

摘要: A method and system for 3-D acoustic microscopy using short pulse laser excitation comprising a sample or object under investigation (12) is optometric acoustically coupled to transducer (14) which includes optically absorbing reflecting materials. Optical detection utilized by way of focused beam (19) scanned an scanning device (23) across layer create spherical ultrasonic waves within the may be living tissue. The reflected are detected through use unfocused probe optical detector array (21) single photo-detector (20) receive from surface transducer.