1. Preface

   • Juan Jose Alvarado-Gil
   • Fernando Mendoza-Santoyo
   • Alfredo Cruz-Orea

   Events 16 November 2012 Pages: 1773 - 1775

2. Photoacoustic, Photothermal, and Diffusion-Wave Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Triumphs of the Past Set the Trends for the Future

   • Andreas Mandelis

   OriginalPaper 04 November 2012 Pages: 1776 - 1777

3. Detection of Dental Secondary Caries Using Frequency-Domain Infrared Photothermal Radiometry (PTR) and Modulated Luminescence (LUM)

   • J. Kim
   • A. Mandelis
   • B. T. Amaechi

   OriginalPaper 07 October 2012 Pages: 1778 - 1786

4. In Vivo Skin Solvent Penetration Measurements Using Opto-thermal Radiometry and Fingerprint Sensor

   • Perry Xiao
   • X. Ou
   • R. E. Imhof

   OriginalPaper 13 October 2012 Pages: 1787 - 1794

5. Comparative Study of Light Scattering from Hepatoma Cells and Hepatocytes

   • Xiaogang Lin
   • Rongrong Wang
   • Xiaoen Guo

   OriginalPaper 31 July 2012 Pages: 1795 - 1800

6. Percutaneous Permeation of Topical Phtalocyanine Studied by Photoacoustic Measurements

   • E. P. O. Silva
   • M. Beltrame Jr.
   • P. R. Barja

   OriginalPaper 11 August 2012 Pages: 1801 - 1807

7. Study of Tissue Phantoms, Tissues, and Contrast Agent with the Biophotoacoustic Radar and Comparison to Ultrasound Imaging for Deep Subsurface Imaging

   • R. Alwi
   • S. Telenkov
   • F. Gu

   OriginalPaper 05 September 2012 Pages: 1808 - 1813

8. Non-invasive Glucose Measurements Using Wavelength Modulated Differential Photothermal Radiometry (WM-DPTR)

   • X. Guo
   • A. Mandelis
   • B. Zinman

   OriginalPaper 24 August 2012 Pages: 1814 - 1821

9. Photoacoustic Analysis of the Penetration Kinetics of Cordia verbenacea DC in Human Skin

   • S. S. Carvalho
   • P. R. Barja

   OriginalPaper 21 June 2012 Pages: 1822 - 1826

10. Absorption Peaks: α, β, γ and Their Covariance with Age and Hemoglobin in Human Blood Samples Using Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

    • J. L. González-Domínguez
    • C. Hernández-Aguilar
    • F. Sánchez-Sinencio

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2012 Pages: 1827 - 1833

11. Authentication of Concentrated Orange Essential Oils Using Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

    • G. A. López Muñoz
    • J. A. Balderas López
    • R. F. López González

    OriginalPaper 24 August 2012 Pages: 1834 - 1841

12. Thermal Effusivity and Thermal Conductivity of Biodiesel/Diesel and Alcohol/Water Mixtures

    • A. O. Guimarães
    • F. A. L. Machado
    • A. M. Mansanares

    OriginalPaper 30 August 2012 Pages: 1842 - 1847

13. Thermal Properties of Biodiesel and Their Corresponding Precursor Vegetable Oils Obtained by Photopyroelectric Methodology

    • F. A. L. Machado
    • E. B. Zanelato
    • A. M. Mansanares

    OriginalPaper 12 July 2012 Pages: 1848 - 1855

14. Photothermal and Structural Comparative Analysis of Chitinous Exoskeletons of Marine Invertebrates

    • B. A. Juárez-de la Rosa
    • J. M. Yañez-Limón
    • J. J. Alvarado-Gil

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2012 Pages: 1856 - 1863

15. Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Candida albicans Treated with Methylene Blue

    • D. Acosta-Avalos
    • L. D. L. Jedlicka
    • E. C. da Silva

    OriginalPaper 25 September 2012 Pages: 1864 - 1869

16. Photoacoustic Evaluation of Sunscreen Stability: Wind, Water, and the Influence of the Substrates

    • S. B. Pinto
    • P. R. Barja

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2012 Pages: 1870 - 1875

17. Simultaneous Measurement of Thermal Diffusivity and Optical Absorption Coefficient of Solids Using PTR and PPE: A Comparison

    • R. Fuente
    • A. Mendioroz
    • A. Salazar

    OriginalPaper 17 August 2012 Pages: 1876 - 1886

18. Application of the Thermal Quadrupoles Method to Semitransparent Solids

    • A. Salazar
    • R. Fuente
    • R. Celorrio

    OriginalPaper 07 August 2012 Pages: 1887 - 1891

19. Optical and Thermal Analysis of the Time Evolution of Curing in Resins by Photothermal Techniques

    • P. Martínez-Torres
    • M. Zambrano-Arjona
    • J. J. Alvarado-Gil

    OriginalPaper 31 August 2012 Pages: 1892 - 1900

20. A New Method to Overcome the Underestimation of the Thermal Diffusivity of Solid Samples Induced by the Coupling Fluid in Photopyroelectric Measurements

    • A. Salazar
    • A. Oleaga

    OriginalPaper 24 May 2012 Pages: 1901 - 1907

21. Photothermal Radiometry Characterization of Limestone Rocks from the Península of Yucatán

    • J. May-Crespo
    • P. Martínez-Torres
    • L. Vilca-Quispe

    OriginalPaper 31 July 2012 Pages: 1908 - 1915

22. Thermal Characterization, Using the Photopyroelectric Technique, of Liquids Used in the Automobile Industry

    • L. M. Cervantes-Espinosa
    • F. de L. Castillo-Alvarado
    • A. García-Quiroz

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2012 Pages: 1916 - 1923

23. Stabilization of Joule Heating in the Electropyroelectric Method

    • R. Ivanov
    • M. Hernández
    • E. I. Martínez-Ordoñez

    OriginalPaper 07 October 2012 Pages: 1924 - 1933

24. Simultaneous Measurement of Local Magnetic and Thermal Parameters by Thermal Wave Scanning Microscopy

    • P. Kijamnajsuk
    • M. Möller
    • J. Pelzl

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2012 Pages: 1934 - 1941

25. Investigation of “Thermal Touch” Response of Coated Steel Plates Employing Square-Wave-Excited Photothermal Infrared Radiometry

    • Preethy Menon
    • Ravindran Rajesh
    • Christ Glorieux

    OriginalPaper 11 July 2012 Pages: 1942 - 1952

26. Shape-Optimized Photoacoustic Cell: Numerical Consolidation and Experimental Confirmation

    • M. Wolff
    • B. Kost
    • B. Baumann

    OriginalPaper 09 August 2012 Pages: 1953 - 1959

27. A Simple Method to Assess Surface Roughness by Photothermal Investigation (PTR) Using an Effective Semitransparent Layer

    • J. S. Antoniow
    • M. Chirtoc
    • H. Benhayoune

    OriginalPaper 08 September 2012 Pages: 1960 - 1965

28. Thermal-Diffusivity Measurement in Low Thermal-Conductivity Solids by a Transient Heating Method

    • A. Lara-Bernal
    • E. Marín
    • O. Delgado-Vasallo

    OriginalPaper 11 September 2012 Pages: 1966 - 1975

29. Rear-Face Photothermal Analysis Under Random Excitation and Parametric Analysis: Application to Thermal-Diffusivity Measurement

    • J. L. Bodnar
    • S. Brahim
    • V. Detalle

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2012 Pages: 1976 - 1981

30. Non-destructive Testing of Forged Metallic Materials by Active Infrared Thermography

    • S. Maillard
    • J. Cadith
    • V. Detalle

    OriginalPaper 24 August 2012 Pages: 1982 - 1988

31. Thermal Coherence Tomography: Depth-Resolved Imaging in Parabolic Diffusion-Wave Fields Using the Thermal-Wave Radar

    • N. Tabatabaei
    • A. Mandelis

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2012 Pages: 1989 - 1995

32. Photothermal Thermography Applied to the Non-destructive Testing of Different Types of Works of Art

    • J. L. Bodnar
    • K. Mouhoubi
    • V. Detalle

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2012 Pages: 1996 - 2000

33. Non-destructive Imaging of Standard Cracks of Railway by Photoacoustic Piezoelectric Technology

    • Laijun Yan
    • Chunming Gao
    • Haiyang Duan

    OriginalPaper 28 July 2012 Pages: 2001 - 2005

34. Cooperative Tracking Using Multiple PTZ Thermal Imagers

    • Zhenghao Li
    • Zhou Hu
    • Shiqing Fu

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2012 Pages: 2006 - 2010

35. Non-destructive Testing by Infrared Thermography Under Random Excitation and ARMA Analysis

    • J. L. Bodnar
    • J. L. Nicolas
    • V. Detalle

    OriginalPaper 23 August 2012 Pages: 2011 - 2015

36. Low Frequency Vibrating Optical System for Detecting Objects Buried in Turbid Media: Preliminary Results

    • D. Cywiak
    • M. Cywiak
    • G. Gutiérrez-Juárez

    OriginalPaper 04 July 2012 Pages: 2016 - 2020

37. Role of Carotenoids in Photosystem II (PSII) Reaction Centers

    • Silvia E. Braslavsky
    • Alfred R. Holzwarth

    OriginalPaper 08 September 2012 Pages: 2021 - 2025

38. Listening to Chemical Materials: Determination of the Photophysical Parameters by Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

    • Y. T. Yang
    • S. Y. Zhang
    • X. J. Liu

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2012 Pages: 2026 - 2034

39. Effect of a ZnSe Layer on the Thermochromic Properties of MoO₃ Thin Films

    • M. A. Arvizu
    • S. A. Tomás
    • O. Zelaya-Angel

    OriginalPaper 29 August 2012 Pages: 2035 - 2040

40. Photoacoustic Study on the Co-luminescence Effect of Lanthanide Complexes with Aromatic Acid in Silica Gels

    • Y. T. Yang
    • H. Yang
    • S. Y. Zhang

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2012 Pages: 2041 - 2045

41. “Dark” Excited States of Diphenylacetylene Studied by Nonresonant Two-Photon Excitation Optical-Probing Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

    • T. Suzuki
    • M. Nakamura
    • T. Ikoma

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2012 Pages: 2046 - 2054

42. Pulsed Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of I₂ and NO₂

    • Fahem Yehya
    • Anil K. Chaudhary

    OriginalPaper 07 October 2012 Pages: 2055 - 2061

43. Study of the Photodegradation Process of Vitamin E Acetate by Optical Absorption, Fluorescence, and Thermal Lens Spectroscopy

    • J. A. Tiburcio-Moreno
    • G. Marcelín-Jiménez
    • J. J. Alvarado-Gil

    OriginalPaper 29 September 2012 Pages: 2062 - 2068

44. Simultaneous Absorptance and Thermal-Diffusivity Determination of Optical Components with Laser Calorimetry Technique

    • Yanru Wang
    • Bincheng Li

    OriginalPaper 06 July 2012 Pages: 2069 - 2075

45. Accuracy Improvement of Multi-parameter Estimation in Combined Photocarrier Radiometry and Free Carrier Absorption for Characterization of Silicon Wafers

    • Qiuping Huang
    • Bincheng Li
    • Shengdong Ren

    OriginalPaper 09 August 2012 Pages: 2076 - 2081

46. Characterization of Arsenic Ultra-Shallow Junctions in Silicon Using Photocarrier Radiometry and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

    • Qiuping Huang
    • Bincheng Li
    • Weidong Gao

    OriginalPaper 31 August 2012 Pages: 2082 - 2088

47. Analysis of Enhanced Photocarrier Radiometry Signals for Ion-Implanted and Annealed Silicon Wafers

    • Xianming Liu
    • Bincheng Li
    • Qiuping Huang

    OriginalPaper 01 September 2012 Pages: 2089 - 2094

48. Lock-in and Heterodyne Carrierographic Imaging Characterization of Industrial Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

    • A. Melnikov
    • P. Chen
    • A. Mandelis

    OriginalPaper 10 October 2012 Pages: 2095 - 2102

49. Theoretical Analysis of Diffraction Efficiency of Photocarrier Grating

    • Q. M. Sun
    • Y. F. Wang
    • Y. Wan

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2012 Pages: 2103 - 2109

50. Photothermal Characterization of Nanocomposites Based on High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Filled with Expanded Graphite

    • M. Chirtoc
    • N. Horny
    • M. Omastová

    OriginalPaper 28 September 2012 Pages: 2110 - 2117