Optical focusing in scattering media with photoacoustic wavefront shaping (PAWS)

Puxiang Lai; Jian Wei Tay; Lidai Wang; Lihong V. Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2036510

3 March 2014 Optical focusing in scattering media with photoacoustic wavefront shaping (PAWS)

Puxiang Lai, Jian Wei Tay, Lidai Wang, Lihong V. Wang

Proceedings Volume 8943, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2014; 894318 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2036510
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Controllable light delivery to the region of interest is essential to biomedical optical imaging methods like photoacoustic microscopy. It is, however, challenging beyond superficial depths in biological tissue (~1 mm beneath human skin) due to the strong scattering of light that scrambles the photon propagation paths. Recently, optical wavefront shaping has been proposed to modulate the incident light wavefront to compensate for the scattering-induced phase distortions, and consequentially, convey light optimally to a desired location behind or inside turbid media. To reach an optimum wavefront, a searching algorithm is usually required to optimize a feedback signal. In this work, we present our latest explorations, which use photoacoustic signals as the feedback to remotely and non-invasively guide the wavefront shaping process. Our method does not require direct optical access to the target region or the invasive embedding of fluorescence probes inside turbid media. Experimentally, we have demonstrated that diffuse light can be converged to the ultrasound focus by maximizing the amplitude of photoacoustic emissions from the intended absorbing site. Moreover, we show that wavefront-shaped light focusing can enhance existing optical imaging modalities like photoacoustic microscopy, in regard to signal-to-noise ratio, imaging depth, and potentially, resolution.

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Puxiang Lai, Jian Wei Tay, Lidai Wang, and Lihong V. Wang "Optical focusing in scattering media with photoacoustic wavefront shaping (PAWS)", Proc. SPIE 8943, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2014, 894318 (3 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2036510

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