Listening to Light and Seeing Through: Biomedical Photoacoustic Imaging [From the Guest Editors]

The articles in this special section focus on the technology and biomedical applications supported by photoacoustic imaging. In today???s clinical practice, human vision remains the major diagnostic imaging tool that can capture the shapes and colors of tissue surfaces. Similarly, a very popular manmade device, the camera, can copy what our eyes can see and store the images in memory. The review contributions and interviews broadly address the diversity of this vivid research field with topics ranging from technology development and image reconstruction methods to contrast enhancement approaches, applications in preclinical research and clinical imaging, as well as major commercialization efforts.