Mapping tissue shear modulus on Thiel soft-embalmed mouse skin with shear wave optical coherence elastography

Shaozhen Song; Joyce Joy; Ruikang K. Wang; Zhihong Huang

doi:10.1117/12.2078289

6 March 2015 Mapping tissue shear modulus on Thiel soft-embalmed mouse skin with shear wave optical coherence elastography

Shaozhen Song, Joyce Joy, Ruikang K. Wang, Zhihong Huang

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Proceedings Volume 9327, Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics II; 93270Y (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2078289
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A quantitative measurement of the mechanical properties of biological tissue is a useful assessment of its physiologic conditions, which may aid medical diagnosis and treatment of, e.g., scleroderma and skin cancer. Traditional elastography techniques such as magnetic resonance elastography and ultrasound elastography have limited scope of application on skin due to insufficient spatial resolution. Recently, dynamic / transient elastography are attracting more applications with the advantage of non-destructive measurements, and revealing the absolute moduli values of tissue mechanical properties. Shear wave optical coherence elastography (SW-OCE) is a novel transient elastography method, which lays emphasis on the propagation of dynamic mechanical waves. In this study, high speed shear wave imaging technique was applied to a range of soft-embalmed mouse skin, where 3 kHz shear waves were launched with a piezoelectric actuator as an external excitation. The shear wave velocity was estimated from the shear wave images, and used to recover a shear modulus map in the same OCT imaging range. Results revealed significant difference in shear modulus and structure in compliance with gender, and images on fresh mouse skin are also compared. Thiel embalming technique is also proven to present the ability to furthest preserve the mechanical property of biological tissue. The experiment results suggest that SW-OCE is an effective technique for quantitative estimation of skin tissue biomechanical status.

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Shaozhen Song, Joyce Joy, Ruikang K. Wang, and Zhihong Huang "Mapping tissue shear modulus on Thiel soft-embalmed mouse skin with shear wave optical coherence elastography", Proc. SPIE 9327, Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics II, 93270Y (6 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2078289

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Skin

Elastography

Tissue optics

Tissues

Optical coherence tomography

Wave propagation

Coherence (optics)

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