Elasticity imaging of speckle-free tissue regions with moving acoustic radiation force and phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Bao-Yu Hsieh; Shaozhen Song; Thu-Mai Nguyen; Soon Joon Yoon; Tueng Shen; Ruikang Wang; Matthew O’Donnell

doi:10.1117/12.2211522

9 March 2016 Elasticity imaging of speckle-free tissue regions with moving acoustic radiation force and phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Bao-Yu Hsieh, Shaozhen Song, Thu-Mai Nguyen, Soon Joon Yoon, Tueng Shen, Ruikang Wang, Matthew O’Donnell

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Proceedings Volume 9710, Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics III; 97101F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211522
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PhS-OCT) can be utilized for quantitative shear-wave elastography using speckle tracking. However, current approaches cannot directly reconstruct elastic properties in speckle-less or speckle-free regions, for example within the crystalline lens in ophthalmology. Investigating the elasticity of the crystalline lens could improve understanding and help manage presbyopia-related pathologies that change biomechanical properties. We propose to reconstruct the elastic properties in speckle-less regions by sequentially launching shear waves with moving acoustic radiation force (mARF), and then detecting the displacement at a specific speckle-generating position, or limited set of positions, with PhS-OCT. A linear ultrasound array (with a center frequency of 5 MHz) interfaced with a programmable imaging system was designed to launch shear waves by mARF. Acoustic sources were electronically translated to launch shear waves at laterally shifted positions, where displacements were detected by speckle tracking images produced by PhS-OCT operating in M-B mode with a 125-kHz A-line rate. Local displacements were calculated and stitched together sequentially based on the distance between the acoustic source and the detection beam. Shear wave speed, and the associated elasticity map, were then reconstructed based on a time-of-flight algorithm. In this study, moving-source shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) can highlight a stiff inclusion within an otherwise homogeneous phantom but with a CNR increased by 3.15 dB compared to a similar image reconstructed with moving-detector SWEI. Partial speckle-free phantoms were also investigated to demonstrate that the moving-source sequence could reconstruct the elastic properties of speckle-free regions. Results show that harder inclusions within the speckle-free region can be detected, suggesting that this imaging method may be able to detect the elastic properties of the crystalline lens.

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Bao-Yu Hsieh, Shaozhen Song, Thu-Mai Nguyen, Soon Joon Yoon, Tueng Shen, Ruikang Wang, and Matthew O’Donnell "Elasticity imaging of speckle-free tissue regions with moving acoustic radiation force and phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 9710, Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics III, 97101F (9 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211522

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