Full field detection in photoacoustic tomography

Opt Express. 2010 Mar 15;18(6):6288-99. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.006288.

Abstract

Imaging the full acoustic field around an object by use of an optical phase contrast method is used to accelerate the data acquisition in photoacoustic tomography. Images obtained with a CCD-camera at a certain time show a projection of the instantaneous pressure field in a given direction. In this work a reconstruction method is presented to obtain the two-dimensional initial pressure distribution by back propagating the observed wave pattern in Radon space. Numerical simulations are used to prove the accuracy of the reconstruction algorithm and to demonstrate a method for correcting limited data artifacts. Finally, the overall performance is shown with experimentally obtained data.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Microscopy, Acoustic / methods*
  • Tomography / methods*