One of the primary challenges in ring single-element photoacoustic tomography systems is the low image quality in areas away from the center of the ring. This is mainly due to the limited field of view (FOV) of each transducer, which in turn reduces the imaging FOV. To address this shortcoming, we have put forward a practical and straightforward solution to enhance the FOV of circular scanning-based photoacoustic tomography (CS-PAT). This is accomplished by placing transducers at different angles instead of using a single transducer placed at a normal angle to the imaging target. We also modified the ring scanner inner wall surface to significantly reduce photoacoustic reverberation. By imaging several phantoms, we show a significant improvement in the images generated by our system imaging from 4.1 to over 7 for the signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index increased from 41% to 70%.
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