کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
561049 875264 2013 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Clutter elimination for deep clinical optoacoustic imaging using localised vibration tagging (LOVIT)
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه شیمی طیف سنجی
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Clutter elimination for deep clinical optoacoustic imaging using localised vibration tagging (LOVIT)
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper investigates a novel method which allows clutter elimination in deep optoacoustic imaging. Clutter significantly limits imaging depth in clinical optoacoustic imaging, when irradiation optics and ultrasound detector are integrated in a handheld probe for flexible imaging of the human body. Strong optoacoustic transients generated at the irradiation site obscure weak signals from deep inside the tissue, either directly by propagating towards the probe, or via acoustic scattering. In this study we demonstrate that signals of interest can be distinguished from clutter by tagging them at the place of origin with localised tissue vibration induced by the acoustic radiation force in a focused ultrasonic beam. We show phantom results where this technique allowed almost full clutter elimination and thus strongly improved contrast for deep imaging. Localised vibration tagging by means of acoustic radiation force is especially promising for integration into ultrasound systems that already have implemented radiation force elastography.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Photoacoustics - Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 19–29
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