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The authors would like to thank B. Braun Surgical, S.A., Fundacio Cellex Barcelona, and the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (Photostroke) for their funding support. We acknowledge useful discussions with Dr Romain Quidant, Dr Jan Laufer, Dr Lihong Wang and Dr Konstantin Maslov as well as contributions by Dr Alexia Giannoula and Laura Hottin to the experimental set-up.

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The potential of photoacoustic microscopy as a tool to characterize the in vivo degradation of surgical sutures

Publicated to:Biomedical Optics Express. 5 (8): 2856-2869 - 2014-08-01 5(8), DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.002856

Authors: Aguirre, Juan; Morales-Dalmau, Jordi; Funk, Lutz; Jara, Francesc; Turon, Pau; Durduran, Turgut

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B Braun Surg SA, Barcelona 08191, Spain - Author
ICFO Inst Ciences Foton, Barcelona 08860, Spain - Author

Abstract

The ex vivo and in vivo imaging, and quantitative characterization of the degradation of surgical sutures (similar to 500 mu m m diameter) up to similar to 1cm depth is demonstrated using a custom dark-field photo-acoustic microscope (PAM). A practical algorithm is developed to accurately measure the suture diameter during the degradation process. The results from tissue simulating phantoms and mice are compared to ex vivo measurements with an optical microscope demonstrating that PAM has a great deal of potential to characterize the degradation process of surgical sutures. The implications of this work for industrial applications are discussed. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America

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(110.5120) photoacoustic imaging(170.0170) medical optics and biotechnologyTomography

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Biomedical Optics Express due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2014, it was in position 9/87, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Optics.

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Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-04:

  • WoS: 4
  • Scopus: 5
  • Europe PMC: 2

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  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 17 (PlumX).

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  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

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There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (AGUIRRE BUENO, JUAN) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been AGUIRRE BUENO, JUAN.