Real-time clinically oriented array-based in vivo combined photoacoustic and power Doppler imaging

Tyler Harrison; Dean Jeffery; Edward Wiebe; Roger J. Zemp

doi:10.1117/12.2040609

3 March 2014 Real-time clinically oriented array-based in vivo combined photoacoustic and power Doppler imaging

Tyler Harrison, Dean Jeffery, Edward Wiebe, Roger J. Zemp

Proceedings Volume 8943, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2014; 89435A (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2040609
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Photoacoustic imaging has great potential for identifying vascular regions for clinical imaging. In addition to assessing angiogenesis in cancers, there are many other disease processes that result in increased vascularity that present novel targets for photoacoustic imaging. Doppler imaging can provide good localization of large vessels, but poor imaging of small or low flow speed vessels and is susceptible to motion artifacts. Photoacoustic imaging can provide visualization of small vessels, but due to the filtering effects of ultrasound transducers, only shows the edges of large vessels. Thus, we have combined photoacoustic imaging with ultrasound power Doppler to provide contrast agent- free vascular imaging. We use a research-oriented ultrasound array system to provide interlaced ultrasound, Doppler, and photoacoustic imaging. This system features realtime display of all three modalities with adjustable persistence, rejection, and compression. For ease of use in a clinical setting, display of each mode can be disabled. We verify the ability of this system to identify vessels with varying flow speeds using receiver operating characteristic curves, and find that as flow speed falls, photoacoustic imaging becomes a much better method for identifying blood vessels. We also present several in vivo images of the thyroid and several synovial joints to assess the practicality of this imaging for clinical applications.

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Tyler Harrison, Dean Jeffery, Edward Wiebe, and Roger J. Zemp "Real-time clinically oriented array-based in vivo combined photoacoustic and power Doppler imaging", Proc. SPIE 8943, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2014, 89435A (3 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2040609

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Doppler effect

Ultrasonography

Photoacoustic imaging

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