Photoacoustic Microscopy
2026

[126] [Jing Meng, Yawen Fu]1, Xufu Fu, Fei Ma, Xiaofei Ai, Dengwang Li, and Chengbo Liu*. "HP-3DNSM: A dedicated 3D deep learning model for neuron segmentation based on Hessian prompt", Pattern Recognition, 174: 113020, 2026. (SCI, IF=7.6)

2025

[125] [Xiangru Liu, Qi Cui, Huan Han]1, Jiaze Wang, Zhousheng Shen, Shutian Liu, Zhengjun Liu, Lingji Xu, Pavel Subochev, Chengbo Liu*, and Wei Liu*. "Advancing photoacoustic microscopy via single-source triple-beam interference excitation", Optics Letters, 50(15): 4694-4697, 2025. (SCI, IF=3.1)

[124] [Liangjian Liu, Zhiqiang Xu, Zhenjie Lai, Bin Xu]1, Taofeng Wu, Guangying Ma, Hongdong Zhang, Jiahao Li, Weilei Ma, Tiancheng Lei, Xiufeng Li, Zeyi Guo, Zheng Song, Ningbo Chen, Shiwei Ye, Jing Meng, Puxiang Lai, Feng Shen, Junlei Chang, Yingjie Zhu, Hairong Zheng*, Wei Zheng*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Photoacoustic and fluorescence hybrid microscope for cortex-wide imaging of neurovascular dynamics with subcellular resolution", Science Advances, 11(30): eadw5275, 2025. (SCI, IF=11.7)

[123] [Yizhou Tan, Min Zhang]1, Zhifeng Wu, Jingqin Chen, Yaguang Ren, Chengbo Liu*, and Ying Gu*. "Local oxygen concentration reversal from hyperoxia to hypoxia monitored by optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy in inflammation-resolution process",  Photoacoustics, (44): 100730, 2025. (SCI, IF=7.1)

[122] [Mengtao Han, Zhiwei Xue]1, Mengchen Yu, Nanlin You, Yaguang Ren, Zhiqiang Xu, Zhifeng Wu, Yiming He, Zonghai Sheng, Chengbo Liu*, Donghai Wang*, and Jingqin Chen*. "Rapid synergistic thrombolysis of ischemic stroke guided by high-resolution and high-speed photoacoustic cerebrovascular imaging", Photoacoustics, (43): 100722, 2025. (SCI, IF=7.1)

[121] Ningbo Chen, Zhiqiang Xu*, Zheng Song, Jiuling Liao, Hongdong Zhang, Jiahao Li, Taofeng Wu, Weileng Ma, Tiancheng Lei, Liangjian Liu, Guangying Ma, Hui Liao, Shiwei Ye, Jing Meng, Puxiang Lai, Yingjie Zhu, Kenneth K. Y. Wong, Hairong Zheng*, Wei Zheng*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Simultaneous head-mounted imaging of neural and hemodynamic activities at high spatiotemporal resolution in freely behaving mice", Science Advances, 11(12), 2025. (SCI, IF=11.7)

[120] Xiufeng Li, Bingxin Huang, Claudia T. K. Lo, Chengbo Liu*, and Terence T. W. Wong*. "Simultaneous Ultraviolet Photoacoustic and Auto‐Fluorescence Microscopy for High‐Contrast Histological Imaging", Laser & Photonics Reviews, 19, 2025. (SCI, IF=10)

2024

[119] Chaorui Qiu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhiqiang Xu, Liao Qiao, Li Ning, Shujun Zhang, Min Su, Weichang Wu, Kexin Song, Zhuo Xu, Longqing Chen, Hairong Zheng*, Chengbo Liu*, Weibao Qiu*, and Fei Li*. "Transparent ultrasonic transducers based on relaxor ferroelectric crystals for advanced photoacoustic imaging", Nature Communications, 15: 10580, 2024. (SCI, IF=14.7)

[118] Fengxian Du, Chen Niu, Silue Zeng, Jingqin Chen*, Chengbo Liu*, and Cuixia Dai*. "Contrast-enhanced near-infrared photoacoustic microscopy and optical coherence tomography imaging of rat fundus", Nanophotonics, 2024. (SCI, IF=6.5)

[117] [Hongdong Zhang, Zhiqiang Xu, Ningbo Chen]1, Fei Ma, Wei Zheng, Chengbo Liu*, and Jing Meng*. "Simultaneous removal of noise and correction of motion warping in neuron calcium imaging using a pipeline structure of self-supervised deep learning models", Biomedical Optics Express, 15(7): 4300-4317, 2024. (SCI, IF =2.9)

[116] [Jing Meng, Jialing Yu]1, Zhifeng Wu, Fei Ma, Yuanke Zhang, Chengbo Liu*. "WSA-MP-Net: Weak-signal-attention and multi-scale perception network for microvascular extraction in optical-resolution photoacoustic microcopy", Photoacoustics, 37: 100600, 2024. (SCI, IF=7.1)

2022

[115] Huangxuan Zhao, Jia Huang, Qiang Zhou, Ningbo Chen, Liangjian Liu, Xinggang Wang, Tao Wang, Leqing Chen, Chengbo Liu*, Chuansheng Zheng*, and Fan Yang*. "Deep Learning-Based Optical-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy for In Vivo 3D Microvasculature Imaging and Segmentation", Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4(9): 202200004, 2022. (SCI, IF=6.214)

[114] [Ningbo Chen, Jia Yu, Liangjian Liu]1, Zhiqiang Xu, Rongkang Gao, Tao Chen, Liang Song, Wei Zheng*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Video-rate high-resolution single-pixel nonscanning photoacoustic microscopy", Biomedical Optics Express, 13(7): 3823-3835, 2022. (SCI, IF=3.732)

[113] [Yu Jiang, Xingchen Duan, Liangjian Liu]1, Yang Shi*, Chengbo Liu*, Dan Ding, Yunfeng Deng*, Yang Han, and Yanhou Geng*. "NIR-II-absorbing conjugated polymers based on tetra-fused isoindigo ribbons for photothermal conversion and photoacoustic imaging", Cell Reports Physical Science, 3: 100957, 2022. (SCI, IF=6.395)

[112] [Zhiqiang Xu, Yinhao Pan]1, Ningbo Chen, Silue Zeng, Liangjian Liu, Rongkang Gao, Jianhui Zhang, Chihua Fang, Liang Song, and Chengbo Liu*. "Visualizing tumor angiogenesis and boundary with polygon-scanning multiscale photoacoustic microscopy", Photoacoustics, 26: 100342, 2022. (SCI, IF=8.399)

[111] Jing Meng, Xueting Zhang, Liangjian Liu, Silue Zeng, Chihua Fang, and Chengbo Liu*. "Depth-extended acoustic-resolution photoacoustic microscopy based on a two-stage deep learning network", Biomedical Optics Express, 13(8): 4386-4397, 2022. (SCI, IF=3.732)

2021

[110] Weizhi Qi, Xiao Liang, Yaoyao Ji, Chengbo Liu, and Lei Xi*. "Optical resolution photoacoustic computed microscopy", Optics Letters, 46(2): 372-375, 2021. (SCI, IF=3.776)

[109] [Huangxuan Zhao, Ke Li]1, Fan Yang, Wenhui Zhou, Ningbo Chen, Liang Song, Chuansheng Zheng*, Zhicheng Liu*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Customized anterior segment photoacoustic imaging for ophthalmic burn evaluation in vivo", Opto-Electronic Advances, 4(6): 200017, 2021. (SCI, IF=9.636)

[108] Huangxuan Zhao, Ziwen Ke, Fan Yang, Ke Li, Ningbo Chen, Liang Song, Chuansheng Zheng*, Dong Liang*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Deep Learning Enables Superior Photoacoustic Imaging at Ultralow Laser Dosages",Advanced Science, 8(3): 2003097, 2021. (SCI, IF=15.840)

[107] Yinhao Pan, Ningbo Chen, Liangjian Liu, Chengbo Liu, Zhiqiang Xu*, and Jianhui Zhang*. "Recovery of photoacoustic images based on accurate ultrasound positioning", Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art, 4(7): s42492, 021, 00072, 2, 2021. (SCI, IF=3.2) 

2020

[106] Huangxuan Zhao, Ke Li, Ziwen Ke, Ningbo Chen, Songjian Wang, Ke Li, Lidai Wang, Xiaojing Gong, Wei Zheng, Liang Song, Zhicheng Liu*, Dong Liang*, and Chengbo Liu*. "A new deep learning method for image deblurring in optical microscopic systems", Journal of Biophotonics, 13(3): e201960147, 2020. (SCI, IF=3.914)

[105] Yingying Zhou, Siyi Liang, Mingsheng Li, Chengbo Liu, Puxiang Lai*, and Lidai Wang*. "Optical‐resolution photoacoustic microscopy with ultrafast dual‐wavelength excitation", Journal of Biophotonics, 13(6): e201960229, 2020. (SCI, IF=3.914)

[104] [Rongkang Gao, Hao Xu, Liangjian Liu]1, Ying Zhang, Ting Yin, Huichao Zhou, Mingjian Sun, Ningbo Chen, Yaguang Ren, Tao Chen, Yinhao Pan, Mingbin Zheng, Tymish Y Ohulchanskyy, Rongqin Zheng, Lintao Cai, Liang Song, Junle Qu*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Photoacoustic visualization of the fluence rate dependence of photodynamic therapy", Biomed Optics Express, 11(8): 4203-4223, 2020. (SCI, IF=3.921)

[103] [Chen Zhang, Huangxuan Zhao, Song Xu]1, Ningbo Chen, Ke Li, Xinkuan Jiang, Liangjian Liu, Zhicheng Liu, Lidai Wang, Kenneth K. Y. Wong, Jun Zou*, Chengbo Liu*, and Liang Song*. "Multiscale high-speed photoacoustic microscopy based on free-space light transmission and a MEMS scanning mirror", Optics Letters, 45(15): 4312-4315, 2020. (SCI, IF=3.714)

[102] Mingjian Sun, Chao Li, Ningbo Chen, Huangxuan Zhao, Liyong Ma, Chengbo Liu, Yi Shen, Riqiang Lin*, and Xiaojing Gong*. "Full three-dimensional segmentation and quantification of tumor vessels for photoacoustic images", Photoacoustics, 20: 100212, 2020. (SCI, IF=5.870)

2019

[101] [Chengbo Liu, Jiuling Liao]1, Longchao Chen, Jianhua Chen, Rubo Ding, Xiaojing Gong, Caimei Cui, Zhiqiang Pang, Wei Zheng*, and Liang Song*. "The integrated high-resolution reflection-mode photoacoustic and fluorescence confocal microscopy", Photoacoustics, 14: 12-18, 2019. (SCI, IF=5.250)

[100] [Meng Zhou, Huangxuan Zhao]1, Haibo Xia, Jiayao Zhang, Zhicheng Liu, Chengbo Liu*, and Fei Gao*. "De-noising of photoacoustic sensing and imaging based on combined empirical mode decomposition and independent component analysis", Journal of Biophotonics, 12(8): e201900042, 2019. (SCI, IF=3.768)

[99] [Qian Zhao, Riqiang Lin, Chengbo Liu]1, Jingxiu Zhao, Guangtao Si, Liang Song*, and Jing Meng*. "Quantitative analysis on in vivo tumor-microvascular images from optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy", Journal of Biophotonics, 12(6): e201800421, 2019. (SCI, IF=3.768)

[98] Huangxuan Zhao, Ningbo Chen, Tan Li, Jianhui Zhang, Riqiang Lin, Xiaojing Gong, Liang Song, Kunya Zhang, Zhi Yang, Zhicheng Liu, and Chengbo Liu*. "Motion Correction in Optical Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 38(9): 2139-2150, 2019. (SCI, IF=6.131)

[97] [Ning Ding, Xiaoxiao Liu, Ningbo Chen]1, Jing Jiang, Huangxuan Zhao, Zhigang Li*, Jianhui Zhang*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Lack of association between acupoint sensitization and microcirculatory structural changes in a mouse model of knee osteoarthritis: A pilot study", Journal of Biophotonics, 12(6): e201800458, 2019. (SCI, IF=3.768)

[96] [Hui-Chao Zhou, Ningbo Chen]1, Huangxuan Zhao, Tinghui Yin, Jianhui Zhang, Wei Zheng, Liang Song, Chengbo Liu*, and Rongqin Zheng*. "Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy for monitoring vascular normalization during anti-angiogenic therapy", Photoacoustics, 15: 100143, 2019. (SCI, IF=5.25)

[95] Huangxuan Zhao, Ke Li, Ningbo Chen, Kunya Zhang, Lidai Wang, Riqiang Lin, Xiaojing Gong, Liang Song, Zhicheng Liu*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Multiscale Vascular Enhancement Filter Applied to In Vivo Morphologic and Functional Photoacoustic", IEEE Photonics Journal, 11(6): 39009112, 2019. (SCI, IF=2.729)


2018

[94]  Huangxuan Zhao, Guangsong Wang, Riqiang Lin, Xiaojing Gong, Liang Song, Tan Li, Wenjia Wang, Kunya Zhang, Xiuqing Qian, Haixia Zhang, Lin Li, Zhicheng Liu*, and Chengbo Liu*. "Three Dimensional Hessian matrix based quantitative vascular imaging of rat iris with optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy", Journal of Biomedical Optics, 23(4): 1-11, 2018. (SCI, IF=2.530)  

2014

[93] Jing Meng, Chengbo Liu, Jiaxiang Zheng, Riqiang Lin, and Liang Song*. ''Compressed sensing based virtual-detector photoacoustic microscopy in vivo'', Journal of Biomedical Optics, 19(3): 036003, 2014. (SCI, IF=3.16)

[92] [Zhenyuan Yang, Jianhua Chen]1, Junjie Yao, Riqiang Lin, Jing Meng, Chengbo Liu, Jinhua Yang, Xiang Li, Lihong Wang, and Liang Song*. ''Multi-parametric quantitative microvascular imaging with optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy in vivo'', Optics Express, 22: 1500-1511, 2014. (SCI, IF=3.59)

2021

[9] Rongkang Gao, Zhiqiang Xu, Yaguang Ren, Liang Song, and Chengbo Liu*. "Nonlinear mechanisms in photoacoustics—Powerful tools in photoacoustic imaging", Photoacoustics, 22: 100243, 2021. (SCI, IF=8.484)

[8] [RongkangGao, ZhiqiangXu]1, LiangSong, and Chengbo Liu*. "Breaking Acoustic Limit of Optical Focusing Using Photoacoustic-Guided Wavefront Shaping", Laser & Photonics Reviews, 15(8): 2000594, 2021. (SCI, IF=13.138)

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