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5 March 2021 Photoacoustic identification of lipid patterns in advanced atherosclerotic plaques
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Abstract
Atherosclerosis is a disease characterized by the narrowing of the arteries as a result of plaque buildup. Lipid-rich plaques are hypothesized to be ‘vulnerable’ plaques with higher risks of rupture. In order to identify lipid biomarkers in-vivo, we use an in-house built photoacoustic imaging microscope system in tandem with mass spectrometer imaging for lipid full characterization. We show photoacoustic lipid spectra of sectioned human carotid endarterectomy samples on histological glass slides to unravel a photoacoustic lipid spectral histology ranging from 1140 nm to 1250 nm. We relate the spectral features identified by PAM to lipids found by mass spectrometry imaging.
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Sophinese Iskander-Rizk, Mirjam Visscher, Astrid Moerman, Nuria Slijkhuis, Antonius F. W. van der Steen, Kim van der Heiden, and Gijs van Soest "Photoacoustic identification of lipid patterns in advanced atherosclerotic plaques", Proc. SPIE 11621, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Light in Cardiology 2021, 116210K (5 March 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2577586
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KEYWORDS
Photoacoustic spectroscopy

Mass spectrometry

Photoacoustic imaging

Imaging systems

In vivo imaging

Microscopes

Spectroscopy

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