High-Speed Integrated Endoscopic Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging System

Yan Li; Zhikai Zhu; Joseph C Jing; Jason J Chen; Emon Heidari; Youmin He; Jiang Zhu; Teng Ma; Mingyue Yu; Qifa Zhou; Zhongping Chen

doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2018.2869614

High-Speed Integrated Endoscopic Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging System

IEEE J Sel Top Quantum Electron. 2019 Jan-Feb;25(1):7102005. doi: 10.1109/JSTQE.2018.2869614. Epub 2018 Sep 13.

Authors

Yan Li¹, Zhikai Zhu¹, Joseph C Jing¹, Jason J Chen¹, Emon Heidari¹, Youmin He¹, Jiang Zhu¹, Teng Ma¹, Mingyue Yu¹, Qifa Zhou¹, Zhongping Chen¹

Affiliation

¹ Y. L. , Z. Z. , J. J. , J. C., E. H., Y. H., J. Z., and Z. Chen are with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA (yanl30@uci.edu; zhikaz1@uci.edu, jcjing@gmail.com; jason.chen@uci.edu; aheidari@uci.edu; youminh1@uci.edu; jzhumail@gmail.com; z2chen@uci.edu). T. M. , M. Y. and Q. Zhou are with Department of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA (mt880501@gmail.com; mingyue930@gmail.com ; qifazhou@usc.edu).

Abstract

Endoscopic integrated photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging has the potential for early detection of the cancer in the gastrointestinal tract. Currently, slow imaging speed is one of the limitations for clinical translation. Here, we developed a high speed integrated endoscopic PA and US imaging system, which is able to perform PA and US imaging simultaneously up to 50 frames per second. Using this system, the architectural morphology and vasculature of the rectum wall were visualized from a Sprague Dawley rat in-vivo.

Keywords: Photoacoustic; endoscopic imaging; gastrointestinal; ultrasound.

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