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1 January 2007 Boundary conditions in photoacoustic tomography and image reconstruction
Lihong V. Wang, Xinmai Yang
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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 12, Issue 1, 014027 (January 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2709861
Abstract
Recently, the field of photoacoustic tomography has experienced considerable growth. Although several commercially available pure optical imaging modalities, including confocal microscopy, two-photon microscopy, and optical coherence tomography, have been highly successful, none of these technologies can penetrate beyond ~1 mm into scattering biological tissues because all of them are based on ballistic and quasiballistic photons. Consequently, heretofore there has been a void in high-resolution optical imaging beyond this depth limit. Photoacoustic tomography has filled this void by combining high ultrasonic resolution and strong optical contrast in a single modality. However, it has been assumed in reconstruction of photoacoustic tomography until now that ultrasound propagates in a boundary-free infinite medium. We present the boundary conditions that must be considered in certain imaging configurations; the associated inverse solutions for image reconstruction are provided and validated by numerical simulation and experiment. Partial planar, cylindrical, and spherical detection configurations with a planar boundary are covered, where the boundary can be either hard or soft. Analogously to the method of images of sources, which is commonly used in forward problems, the ultrasonic detectors are imaged about the boundary to satisfy the boundary condition in the inverse problem.
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Lihong V. Wang and Xinmai Yang "Boundary conditions in photoacoustic tomography and image reconstruction," Journal of Biomedical Optics 12(1), 014027 (1 January 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2709861
Published: 1 January 2007
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KEYWORDS
Reconstruction algorithms
Sensors
Photoacoustic tomography
Image restoration
Image sensors
Acoustics
Photoacoustic spectroscopy
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