Estimating chromophore distributions from multiwavelength photoacoustic images
- 30 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Vol. 26 (2), 443-455
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.26.000443
Abstract
Biomedical photoacoustic tomography (PAT) can provide qualitative images of biomedical soft tissue with high spatial resolution. However, whether it is possible to give accurate quantitative estimates of the spatially varying concentrations of the sources of photoacoustic contrast—endogenous or exogenous chromophores—remains an open question. Even if the chromophores’ absorption spectra are known, the problem is nonlinear and ill-posed. We describe a framework for obtaining such quantitative estimates. When the optical scattering distribution is known, adjoint and gradient-based optimization techniques can be used to recover the concentration distributions of the individual chromophores that contribute to the overall tissue absorption. When the scattering distribution is unknown, prior knowledge of the wavelength dependence of the scattering is shown to be sufficient to overcome the absorption-scattering nonuniqueness and allow both distributions of chromophore concentrations and scattering to be recovered from multiwavelength photoacoustic images.Keywords
Funding Information
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) (EPSRC)
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