TY - GEN
T1 - Towards very high resolution imaging in ultrasound-modulated optical tomography of biological tissues
AU - Sakadžić, Sava
AU - Kothapalli, Sri Rajasekhar
AU - Wang, Lihong V.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We explored the possibility of applying very high ultrasound frequencies to achieve very high resolution in ultrasound-modulated optical tomography of soft biological tissues. The ultrasound-modulated coherent light that traversed the scattering biological tissue was detected by a long-cavity and a large etendue confocal Fabry-Perot interferometer. We used various focused ultrasound transducers of 15 MHz, 30 MHz, and 50 MHz to obtain two dimensional images of optically absorbing objects positioned at a few millimeters depth below the surface of both optically scattering phantoms and soft biological tissue samples. This technology is complementary to other imaging technologies, such as confocal microscopy and optical-coherence tomography, and has potential for broad biomedical applications.
AB - We explored the possibility of applying very high ultrasound frequencies to achieve very high resolution in ultrasound-modulated optical tomography of soft biological tissues. The ultrasound-modulated coherent light that traversed the scattering biological tissue was detected by a long-cavity and a large etendue confocal Fabry-Perot interferometer. We used various focused ultrasound transducers of 15 MHz, 30 MHz, and 50 MHz to obtain two dimensional images of optically absorbing objects positioned at a few millimeters depth below the surface of both optically scattering phantoms and soft biological tissue samples. This technology is complementary to other imaging technologies, such as confocal microscopy and optical-coherence tomography, and has potential for broad biomedical applications.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.645285
DO - 10.1117/12.645285
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33646246387
SN - 0819461288
SN - 9780819461285
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
T2 - 7th Conference on Biomedical Thermoacoustics, Optoacoustics, and Acousto-optics - Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2006
Y2 - 22 January 2006 through 26 January 2006
ER -