Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography in reflection mode with ring-shaped light illumination

Chulhong Kim; Kwang Hyun Song; Konstantin I. Maslov; Lihong V. Wang

doi:10.1117/1.3088224

1 March 2009 Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography in reflection mode with ring-shaped light illumination

Chulhong Kim, Kwang Hyun Song, Konstantin I. Maslov, Lihong V. Wang

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 024015 (March 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3088224

Abstract

We have succeeded in implementing ring-shaped light illumination ultrasound-modulated optical tomography (UOT) in reflection mode. The system used intense acoustic bursts and a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera-based speckle contrast detection method. In addition, the implementation allows placing the tissue sample below (not within) an acoustic coupling water tank and scanning the tissue without moving the sample. Thus, the UOT system is more clinically applicable than previous transmission-mode systems. Furthermore, we have successfully imaged an ex vivo methylene-blue-dyed sentinel lymph node (SLN) embedded at a depth of 13 mm in chicken breast tissue. This UOT system offers several advantages: noninvasiveness, nonionizing radiation, portability, cost effectiveness, and the possibility of combination with ultrasound pulse-echo imaging and photoacoustic imaging. One potential application of the UOT system is mapping SLNs in axillary staging for breast cancer patients.

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Chulhong Kim, Kwang Hyun Song, Konstantin I. Maslov, and Lihong V. Wang "Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography in reflection mode with ring-shaped light illumination," Journal of Biomedical Optics 14(2), 024015 (1 March 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3088224

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