Transcranial photoacoustic tomography of the monkey brain
Abstract
A photoacoustic tomography (PAT) system using a virtual point ultrasonic transducer was developed for transcranial imaging of monkey brains. The virtual point transducer provided a 10 times greater field-of-view (FOV) than finiteaperture unfocused transducers, which enables large primate imaging. The cerebral cortex of a monkey brain was accurately mapped transcranially, through up to two skulls ranging from 4 to 8 mm in thickness. The mass density and speed of sound distributions of the skull were estimated from adjunct X-ray CT image data and utilized with a timereversal algorithm to mitigate artifacts in the reconstructed image due to acoustic aberration. The oxygenation saturation (sO_2) in blood phantoms through a monkey skull was also imaged and quantified, with results consistent with measurements by a gas analyzer. The oxygenation saturation (sO_2) in blood phantoms through a monkey skull was also imaged and quantified, with results consistent with measurements by a gas analyzer. Our experimental results demonstrate that PAT can overcome the optical and ultrasound attenuation of a relatively thick skull, and the imaging aberration caused by skull can be corrected to a great extent.
Additional Information
© 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants R01 EB010049, R01 CA134539, R01 EB000712, U54 CA136398, and R01 EB008085).Attached Files
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- 89730
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20180918-140709994
- R01 EB010049
- NIH
- R01 CA134539
- NIH
- R01 EB000712
- NIH
- U54 CA136398
- NIH
- R01 EB008085
- NIH
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2018-09-19Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 8223