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The Fibonacci distribution for hemispherical transducer arrays in 3D photoacoustic computed tomography yields superior structural robustness and globally balanced reconstruction quality due to its highly isotropic sampling properties. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To evaluate how spatial sampling configurations of hemispherical transducer arrays affect baseline image reconstruction quality in three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography under fixed hardware constraints.

August 27, 2026npj ImagingOpen Access

Spatial sampling of hemispherical arrays for three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography

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WZWanqing ZhangUniversity of Colorado Boulder HZHengyue ZhuUniversity of Colorado Boulder YZYide ZhangUniversity of Colorado Boulder

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Benchmarking analysis reveals superior reconstruction robustness from Fibonacci spatial sampling in hemispherical photoacoustic tomography arrays, indicating key hardware design strategies.

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To evaluate how spatial sampling configurations of hemispherical transducer arrays affect baseline image reconstruction quality in three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography under fixed hardware constraints.
Applied a uniform-spacing sampling criterion to establish three distinct hemispherical array distributions.
Evaluated reconstruction performance across static, noise-perturbed, reduced-element, and rotational acquisition conditions using quantitative metrics.
The Fibonacci distribution achieved consistently superior structural robustness and globally balanced reconstruction quality across all tested acquisition conditions.
Enhanced reconstruction performance was driven by the isotropic sampling properties of the Fibonacci layout, mitigating limited-view artifacts and stabilizing hardware-level sampling.

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Zhang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fe91710c91c1e92620be2 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44303-026-00191-6

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Benchmarking analysis reveals superior reconstruction robustness from Fibonacci spatial sampling in hemispherical photoacoustic tomography arrays, indicating key hardware design strategies.

Spatial sampling of hemispherical arrays for three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography

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Spatial sampling of hemispherical arrays for three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography

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