International Photoacoustic Standardisation Consortium
IPASC Mission
The overall goal of IPASC is to reach consensus on photoacoustic imaging (PAI) standardization to improve the quality of preclinical studies and to accelerate efforts in clinical translation. Furthermore, by establishing standards IPASC hopes to facilitate open access, use, and exchange of data between different groups.
IPASC is currently represented globally in over 14 countries with more than 70 academic and industrial members (see our Member List for a full overview). If you also want to get involved and contribute to the consortium, please follow the 'Get Involved' instructions. To learn more about the goals and efforts of IPASC, please also have a look at our letter to the editor published in Nature Photonics.
Define widely accepted phantoms for use with preclinical and clinical PAI systems
Provide open, publicly available, reference datasets for testing of data reconstruction and spectral processing algorithms in a widely accepted data format
Use these phantoms to enable quantitative comparison of PAI data acquired with different system designs and analysed with different data reconstruction and spectral processing algorithms
Agree upon a standardized and validated test method for new PAI instruments to help with comparison of published results.
To achieve these goals, the IPASC efforts have been streamlined into three thematic areas:
We are planning to host the first Annual International Photoacoustic Standardisation Consortium Meeting on November 4th 2019, at the National Physical Laboratory, UK. If you are interested in joining, please register via our registration form: