Table 2 Photoacoustic-based Lesion Size Estimation at Different Tissue Surface Depth.

From: Miniaturized side-firing intracardiac photoacoustic imaging catheter for monitoring radiofrequency ablation

Tissue surface depth

Saline

Blood

Gross pathology

8 mm

11 mm

4 mm

5 mm

7 mm

8 mm

12 mm

Lesion width [mm]

6.02

6.89

5.91

5.80

6.67

6.78

3.50

6.52 +/− 0.88

Lesion depth [mm]

4.30

4.14

3.48

3.79

3.87

4.64

2.32

3.88 +/− 1.15