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1 September 2011 Quantitative photoacoustic imaging: correcting for heterogeneous light fluence distributions using diffuse optical tomography
Adam Q. Bauer, Ralph E. Nothdurft, Joseph P. Culver, Todd N. Erpelding, Lihong V. Wang
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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 16, Issue 9, 096016 (September 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3626212
Abstract
The specificity of molecular and functional photoacoustic (PA) images depends on the accuracy of the photoacoustic absorption spectroscopy. The PA signal is proportional to the product of the optical absorption coefficient and local light fluence; quantitative PA measurements of the optical absorption coefficient therefore require an accurate estimation of optical fluence. Light-modeling aided by diffuse optical tomography (DOT) can be used to map the required fluence and to reduce errors in traditional PA spectroscopic analysis. As a proof-of-concept, we designed a tissue-mimicking phantom to demonstrate how fluence-related artifacts in PA images can lead to misrepresentations of tissue properties. To correct for these inaccuracies, the internal fluence in the tissue phantom was estimated by using DOT to reconstruct spatial distributions of the absorption and reduced scattering coefficients of multiple targets within the phantom. The derived fluence map, which only consisted of low spatial frequency components, was used to correct PA images of the phantom. Once calibrated to a known absorber, this method reduced errors in estimated absorption coefficients from 33% to 6%. These results experimentally demonstrate that combining DOT with PA imaging can significantly reduce fluence-related errors in PA images, while producing quantitatively accurate, high-resolution images of the optical absorption coefficient.
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Adam Q. Bauer, Ralph E. Nothdurft, Joseph P. Culver, Todd N. Erpelding, and Lihong V. Wang "Quantitative photoacoustic imaging: correcting for heterogeneous light fluence distributions using diffuse optical tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 16(9), 096016 (1 September 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3626212
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KEYWORDS
Absorption
Scattering
Capillaries
Imaging systems
Optical properties
Photoacoustic imaging
Tissue optics
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