Integrated diffuse optical tomography and photoacoustic tomography: phantom validations

Xiaoqi Li; Lei Xi; Ruixin Jiang; Lei Yao; Huabei Jiang

doi:10.1364/BOE.2.002348

Integrated diffuse optical tomography and photoacoustic tomography: phantom validations

Biomed Opt Express. 2011 Aug 1;2(8):2348-53. doi: 10.1364/BOE.2.002348. Epub 2011 Jul 21.

Authors

Xiaoqi Li¹, Lei Xi, Ruixin Jiang, Lei Yao, Huabei Jiang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.

Abstract

We designed, fabricated and tested a novel imaging system that fuses diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and photoacoustic tomography (PAT) in a single platform. This platform takes advantages of both DOT and PAT, and can potentially provide dual-modality two dimensional functional and cellular images of the breast quantitatively. Here we describe this integrated platform along with initial tissue phantom validations.

Keywords: (110.6960) Tomography; (170.0110) Imaging systems; (170.5120) Photoacoustic imaging.