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Investigating ultrasound-light interaction in scattering media
- Source :
- Journal of Biomedical Optics
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Significance: Ultrasound-assisted optical imaging techniques, such as ultrasound-modulated optical tomography, allow for imaging deep inside scattering media. In these modalities, a fraction of the photons passing through the ultrasound beam is modulated. The efficiency by which the photons are converted is typically referred to as the ultrasound modulation’s “tagging efficiency.” Interestingly, this efficiency has been defined in varied and discrepant fashion throughout the scientific literature. Aim: The aim of this study is the ultrasound tagging efficiency in a manner consistent with its definition and experimentally verify the contributive (or noncontributive) relationship between the mechanisms involved in the ultrasound optical modulation process. Approach: We adopt a general description of the tagging efficiency as the fraction of photons traversing an ultrasound beam that is frequency shifted (inclusion of all frequency-shifted components). We then systematically studied the impact of ultrasound pressure and frequency on the tagging efficiency through a balanced detection measurement system that measured the power of each order of the ultrasound tagged light, as well as the power of the unmodulated light component. Results: Through our experiments, we showed that the tagging efficiency can reach 70% in a scattering phantom with a scattering anisotropy of 0.9 and a scattering coefficient of 4 mm⁻¹ for a 1-MHz ultrasound with a relatively low (and biomedically acceptable) peak pressure of 0.47 MPa. Furthermore, we experimentally confirmed that the two ultrasound-induced light modulation mechanisms, particle displacement and refractive index change, act in opposition to each other. Conclusion: Tagging efficiency was quantified via simulation and experiments. These findings reveal avenues of investigation that may help improve ultrasound-assisted optical imaging techniques.
- Subjects :
- Paper
Optics and Photonics
Materials science
Photon
Biomedical Engineering
Acousto-optics
tomography
01 natural sciences
Light scattering
Imaging phantom
010309 optics
Biomaterials
Speckle pattern
Optics
0103 physical sciences
medicine
Scattering, Radiation
Computer Simulation
Optical tomography
General
Ultrasonography
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Scattering
Phantoms, Imaging
Ultrasound
Optical Imaging
scattering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
acousto-optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Anisotropy
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15602281
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of biomedical optics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c7484892daedf61e29b3b8b5e98b1407