Improving spatial resolution and contrast in ultrasound modulated optical tomography

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. T. Huynh ◽  
H. Ruan ◽  
M. L. Mather ◽  
B. R. Hayes-Gill ◽  
S. P. Morgan
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ghijsen ◽  
Yuting Lin ◽  
Mitchell Hsing ◽  
Orhan Nalcioglu ◽  
Gultekin Gulsen

Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is an optical imaging modality that has various clinical applications. However, the spatial resolution and quantitative accuracy of DOT is poor due to strong photon scatting in biological tissue. Structurala prioriinformation from another high spatial resolution imaging modality such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been demonstrated to significantly improve DOT accuracy. In addition, a contrast agent can be used to obtain differential absorption images of the lesion by using dynamic contrast enhanced DOT (DCE-DOT). This produces a relative absorption map that consists of subtracting a reconstructed baseline image from reconstructed images in which optical contrast is included. In this study, we investigated and compared different reconstruction methods and analysis approaches for regular endogenous DOT and DCE-DOT with and without MR anatomicala prioriinformation for arbitrarily-shaped objects. Our phantom and animal studies have shown that superior image quality and higher accuracy can be achieved using DCE-DOT together with MR structurala prioriinformation. Hence, implementation of a combined MRI-DOT system to image ICG enhancement can potentially be a promising tool for breast cancer imaging.


2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
E V Malikov ◽  
V M Petnikova ◽  
D A Chursin ◽  
Vladimir V Shuvalov ◽  
I V Shutov

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (18) ◽  
pp. 20427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeaki Shimokawa ◽  
Takashi Kosaka ◽  
Okito Yamashita ◽  
Nobuo Hiroe ◽  
Takashi Amita ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agathe Puszka ◽  
Laura Di Sieno ◽  
Alberto Dalla Mora ◽  
Antonio Pifferi ◽  
Davide Contini ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Xavier Intes ◽  
Vasilis Ntziachristos ◽  
Monica Holboke ◽  
Arjun Yodh ◽  
Britton Chance

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