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11 December 2012 Effects of light scattering on optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy
Yan Liu, Chi Zhang, Lihong V. Wang
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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 17, Issue 12, 126014 (December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.17.12.126014
Abstract
The imaging depth of ballistic optical imaging technologies is limited by light scattering. To study the effects of scattering on optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM), the signals were divided into target and background signals. A method to simulate the point spread function (PSF) of the PAM system considering both optical illumination and acoustic detection was proposed, then the PSF was used to calculate the contribution of each class of signal at different depths of the focal plane (zf ). How image contrast is degraded when there is a uniformly absorbing background as well as when there are small targets densely packed in the acoustic resolution cell were studied. By using the hyperboloid-focusing-based Monte Carlo method, optical focusing into a scattering medium was simulated. It was found that the lateral resolution provided by optical focusing is degraded by only 14% when zf= 1.1 transport mean free path (l′t), compared with the case of no scattering. When zf= 1.7l′t, the fluence at 50 μm radial distance away from the focal point is 93% of that at the focal point, which shows optical focusing is very weak at this depth. The method to simulate the PSF of PAM can be used in the future to optimize parameters so as to improve the system performance.
© 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 0091-3286/2012/$25.00 © 2012 SPIE
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Yan Liu, Chi Zhang, and Lihong V. Wang "Effects of light scattering on optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy," Journal of Biomedical Optics 17(12), 126014 (11 December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.17.12.126014
Published: 11 December 2012
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KEYWORDS
Point spread functions
Monte Carlo methods
Scattering
Light scattering
Tissue optics
Acoustics
Transducers
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