{"id":218780,"date":"2025-07-26T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/noninvasive-stent-imaging-powered-by-light-and-sound"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:04:00","slug":"noninvasive-stent-imaging-powered-by-light-and-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/noninvasive-stent-imaging-powered-by-light-and-sound","title":{"rendered":"Noninvasive stent imaging powered by light and sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/noninvasive-stent-imaging-powered-by-light-and-sound2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers show, for the first time, that photoacoustic microscopy can image stents through skin, potentially offering a safer, easier way to monitor these life-saving devices. Each year, around 2 million people in the U.S. are implanted with a stent to improve blood flow in narrowed or blocked arteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is critical to monitor <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/stents\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stents<\/a> for problems such as fractures or improper positioning, but conventionally used techniques require invasive procedures or radiation exposure,\u201d said co-lead researcher Myeongsu Seong from Xi\u2019an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China. \u201cThis inspired us to test the potential of using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photoacoustic+imaging\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photoacoustic imaging<\/a> for monitoring stents through the skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the journal <i>Optics Letters<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-50-15-4722\" target=\"_blank\">researchers show<\/a> that photoacoustic microscopy can be used to visualize stents covered with mouse skin under various clinically relevant conditions, including simulated damage and plaque buildup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, researchers show, for the first time, that photoacoustic microscopy can image stents through skin, potentially offering a safer, easier way to monitor these life-saving devices. Each year, around 2 million people in the U.S. are implanted with a stent to improve blood flow in narrowed or blocked arteries. \u201cIt is critical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}