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Deng B, Gu H, Zhu H, Chang K, Hoebel KV, Patel JB, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Carp SA. FDU-Net: Deep Learning-Based Three-Dimensional Diffuse Optical Image Reconstruction. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2023; 42:2439-2450. [PMID: 37028063 PMCID: PMC10446911 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2023.3252576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Near-infrared diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a promising functional modality for breast cancer imaging; however, the clinical translation of DOT is hampered by technical limitations. Specifically, conventional finite element method (FEM)-based optical image reconstruction approaches are time-consuming and ineffective in recovering full lesion contrast. To address this, we developed a deep learning-based reconstruction model (FDU-Net) comprised of a Fully connected subnet, followed by a convolutional encoder-Decoder subnet, and a U-Net for fast, end-to-end 3D DOT image reconstruction. The FDU-Net was trained on digital phantoms that include randomly located singular spherical inclusions of various sizes and contrasts. Reconstruction performance was evaluated in 400 simulated cases with realistic noise profiles for the FDU-Net and conventional FEM approaches. Our results show that the overall quality of images reconstructed by FDU-Net is significantly improved compared to FEM-based methods and a previously proposed deep-learning network. Importantly, once trained, FDU-Net demonstrates substantially better capability to recover true inclusion contrast and location without using any inclusion information during reconstruction. The model was also generalizable to multi-focal and irregularly shaped inclusions unseen during training. Finally, FDU-Net, trained on simulated data, could successfully reconstruct a breast tumor from a real patient measurement. Overall, our deep learning-based approach demonstrates marked superiority over the conventional DOT image reconstruction methods while also offering over four orders of magnitude acceleration in computational time. Once adapted to the clinical breast imaging workflow, FDU-Net has the potential to provide real-time accurate lesion characterization by DOT to assist the clinical diagnosis and management of breast cancer.
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Zhang M, Li S, Xue M, Zhu Q. Two-stage classification strategy for breast cancer diagnosis using ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography and deep learning. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2023; 28:086002. [PMID: 37638108 PMCID: PMC10457211 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.28.8.086002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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Significance Ultrasound (US)-guided diffuse optical tomography (DOT) has demonstrated great potential for breast cancer diagnosis in which real-time or near real-time diagnosis with high accuracy is desired. Aim We aim to use US-guided DOT to achieve an automated, fast, and accurate classification of breast lesions. Approach We propose a two-stage classification strategy with deep learning. In the first stage, US images and histograms created from DOT perturbation measurements are combined to predict benign lesions. Then the non-benign suspicious lesions are passed through to the second stage, which combine US image features, DOT histogram features, and 3D DOT reconstructed images for final diagnosis. Results The first stage alone identified 73.0% of benign cases without image reconstruction. In distinguishing between benign and malignant breast lesions in patient data, the two-stage classification approach achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.946, outperforming the diagnoses of all single-modality models and of a single-stage classification model that combines all US images, DOT histogram, and imaging features. Conclusions The proposed two-stage classification strategy achieves better classification accuracy than single-modality-only models and a single-stage classification model that combines all features. It can potentially distinguish breast cancers from benign lesions in near real-time.
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- Menghao Zhang
- Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Nouizi F, Brooks J, Zuro DM, Hui SK, Gulsen G. Development of a theranostic preclinical fluorescence molecular tomography/cone beam CT-guided irradiator platform. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 13:6100-6112. [PMID: 36733750 PMCID: PMC9872876 DOI: 10.1364/boe.469559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Revised: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Image-guided small animal radiation research platforms allow more precise radiation treatment. Commercially available small animal X-ray irradiators are often equipped with a CT/cone-beam CT (CBCT) component for target guidance. Besides having poor soft-tissue contrast, CBCT unfortunately cannot provide molecular information due to its low sensitivity. Hence, there are extensive efforts to incorporate a molecular imaging component besides CBCT on these radiation therapy platforms. As an extension of these efforts, here we present a theranostic fluorescence tomography/CBCT-guided irradiator platform that provides both anatomical and molecular guidance, which can overcome the limitations of stand-alone CBCT. The performance of our hybrid system is validated using both tissue-like phantoms and mice ex vivo. Both studies show that fluorescence tomography can provide much more accurate quantitative results when CBCT-derived structural information is used to constrain the inverse problem. The error in the recovered fluorescence absorbance reduces nearly 10-fold for all cases, from approximately 60% down to 6%. This is very significant since high quantitative accuracy in molecular information is crucial to the correct assessment of the changes in tumor microenvironment related to radiation therapy.
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- Farouk Nouizi
- Tu and Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
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- Tu and Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Muldoon A, Kabeer A, Cormier J, Saksena MA, Fang Q, Carp SA, Deng B. Method to improve the localization accuracy and contrast recovery of lesions in separately acquired X-ray and diffuse optical tomographic breast imaging. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 13:5295-5310. [PMID: 36425617 PMCID: PMC9664870 DOI: 10.1364/boe.470373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Near-infrared diffuse optical tomography (DOT) has the potential to improve the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis and aid in monitoring the response of breast tumors to chemotherapy by providing hemoglobin-based functional imaging. The use of structural lesion priors derived from clinical breast imaging methods, such as mammography, can improve recovery of tumor optical contrast; however, accurate lesion prior placement is essential to take full advantage of prior-guided DOT image reconstruction. Simultaneous optical and anatomical imaging may not always be possible or desired, which can make the accurate registration of the lesion prior challenging. In this paper, we present a three-step lesion prior scanning approach to facilitate improved accuracy in lesion localization based on the optical contrast quantified by the total hemoglobin concentration (HbT) for non-simultaneous multimodal DOT and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) imaging. In three challenging breast cancer patient cases, where no clear optical contrast was present initially, we have demonstrated consistent improvement in the recovered HbT lesion contrast by utilizing this method.
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- Ailis Muldoon
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Breast Imaging Division, Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Breast Imaging Division, Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Kukačka J, Metz S, Dehner C, Muckenhuber A, Paul-Yuan K, Karlas A, Fallenberg EM, Rummeny E, Jüstel D, Ntziachristos V. Image processing improvements afford second-generation handheld optoacoustic imaging of breast cancer patients. PHOTOACOUSTICS 2022; 26:100343. [PMID: 35308306 PMCID: PMC8931444 DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2022.100343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Since the initial breast transillumination almost a century ago, breast cancer imaging using light has been considered in different implementations aiming to improve diagnostics, minimize the number of available biopsies, or monitor treatment. However, due to strong photon scattering, conventional optical imaging yields low resolution images, challenging quantification and interpretation. Optoacoustic imaging addresses the scattering limitation and yields high-resolution visualization of optical contrast, offering great potential value for breast cancer imaging. Nevertheless, the image quality of experimental systems remains limited due to a number of factors, including signal attenuation with depth and partial view angle and motion effects, particularly in multi-wavelength measurements. METHODS We developed data analytics methods to improve the accuracy of handheld optoacoustic breast cancer imaging, yielding second-generation optoacoustic imaging performance operating in tandem with ultrasonography. RESULTS We produced the most advanced images yet with handheld optoacoustic examinations of the human breast and breast cancer, in terms of resolution and contrast. Using these advances, we examined optoacoustic markers of malignancy, including vasculature abnormalities, hypoxia, and inflammation, on images obtained from breast cancer patients. CONCLUSIONS We achieved a new level of quality for optoacoustic images from a handheld examination of the human breast, advancing the diagnostic and theranostic potential of the hybrid optoacoustic-ultrasound (OPUS) examination over routine ultrasonography.
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Key Words
- 2G-OPUS, 2nd generation Multispectral Optoacoustic-Ultrasound Tomography
- Breast cancer
- CNR, Contrast-to-noise ratio
- DCIS, Ductal carcinoma in situ
- FOV, Field of view
- FWHM, Full width at half maximum
- ILC, Invasive lobular carcinoma
- Image quality enhancement
- In vivo imaging
- LCO, Lower cut-off
- MSOT, Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography
- Multispectral optoacoustic tomography
- NAT, Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- NST, No special type
- OA, Optoacoustics
- SoS, Speed-of-sound
- TIR, Total impulse response
- Tumor-associated microvasculature
- US, Ultrasound
- Ultrasound
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- Jan Kukačka
- Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Neuherberg, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Chair of Biological Imaging at the Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM), Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Munich, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Neuherberg, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Chair of Biological Imaging at the Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM), Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, Institute of General and Surgical Pathology, Munich, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Neuherberg, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Chair of Biological Imaging at the Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM), Munich, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Neuherberg, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Chair of Biological Imaging at the Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM), Munich, Germany
- Klinikum rechts der Isar, Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Munich, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Neuherberg, Germany
- Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Institute of Computational Biology, Neuherberg, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Chair of Biological Imaging at the Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM), Munich, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Neuherberg, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Chair of Biological Imaging at the Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM), Munich, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Munich, Germany
- Correspondence to: Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Building 56, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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Jiang J, Costanzo Mata AD, Lindner S, Charbon E, Wolf M, Kalyanov A. 2.5 Hz sample rate time-domain near-infrared optical tomography based on SPAD-camera image tissue hemodynamics. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 13:133-146. [PMID: 35154859 PMCID: PMC8803024 DOI: 10.1364/boe.441061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
Time-domain near-infrared optical tomography (TD NIROT) techniques based on diffuse light were gaining performance over the last years. They are capable of imaging tissue at several centimeters depth and reveal clinically relevant information, such as tissue oxygen saturation. In this work, we present the very first in vivo results of our SPAD camera-based TD NIROT reflectance system with a temporal resolution of ∼116 ps. It provides 2800 time of flight source-detector pairs in a compact probe of only 6 cm in diameter. Additionally, we describe a 3-step reconstruction procedure that enables accurate recovery of structural information and of the optical properties. We demonstrate the system's performance firstly in reconstructing the 3D-structure of a heterogeneous tissue phantom with tissue-like scattering and absorption properties within a volume of 9 cm diameter and 5 cm thickness. Furthermore, we performed in vivo tomography of an index finger located within a homogeneous scattering medium. We employed a fast sampling rate of 2.5 Hz to detect changes in tissue oxygenation. Tomographic reconstructions were performed in true 3D, and without prior structural information, demonstrating the powerful capabilities of the system. This shows its potential for clinical applications.
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- Jingjing Jiang
- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL), Dept. of Neonatology, University of Zurich / University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL), Dept. of Neonatology, University of Zurich / University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL), Dept. of Neonatology, University of Zurich / University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
- Advanced Quantum Architecture (AQUA) laboratory, School of Engineering, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
- now with ams OSRAM, Rüschlikon, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Advanced Quantum Architecture (AQUA) laboratory, School of Engineering, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL), Dept. of Neonatology, University of Zurich / University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL), Dept. of Neonatology, University of Zurich / University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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Nouizi F, Algarawi M, Erkol H, Luk A, Gulsen G. Multiwavelength photo-magnetic imaging algorithm improved for direct chromophore concentration recovery using spectral constraints. APPLIED OPTICS 2021; 60:10855-10861. [PMID: 35200850 DOI: 10.1364/ao.439250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Multiwavelength photo-magnetic imaging (PMI) is a novel combination of diffuse optics and magnetic resonance imaging, to the best of our knowledge, that yields tissue chromophore concentration maps with high resolution and quantitative accuracy. Here, we present the first experimental results, to the best of our knowledge, obtained using a spectrally constrained PMI image reconstruction method, where chromophore concentration maps are directly recovered, unlike the conventional two-step approach that requires an intermediate step of reconstructing wavelength-dependent absorption coefficient maps. The imposition of the prior spectral information into the PMI inverse problem improves the reconstructed image quality and allows recovery of highly quantitative concentration maps, which are crucial for effective cancer detection and characterization. The obtained results demonstrate the higher performance of the direct reconstruction method. Indeed, the reconstructed concentration maps are not only of higher quality but also obtained approximately 2 times faster than the conventional method.
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Feng J, Jiang S, Pogue BW, Paulsen KD. Performance assessment of MRI guided continuous wave near-infrared spectral tomography for breast imaging. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 12:7657-7672. [PMID: 35003858 PMCID: PMC8713687 DOI: 10.1364/boe.444131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Integration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and near-infrared spectral tomography (NIRST) has yielded promising diagnostic performance for breast imaging in the past. This study focused on whether MRI-guided NIRST can quantify hemoglobin concentration using only continuous wave (CW) measurements. Patients were classified into four breast density groups based on their MRIs. Optical scattering properties were assigned based on average values obtained from these density groups, and MRI-guided NIRST images were reconstructed from calibrated CW data. Total hemoglobin (HbT) contrast between suspected lesions and surrounding normal tissue was used as an indicator of the malignancy. Results obtained from simulations and twenty-four patient cases indicate that the diagnostic power when using only CW data to differentiate malignant from benign abnormalities is similar to that obtained from combined frequency domain (FD) and CW data. These findings suggest that eliminating FD detection to reduce the cost and complexity of MRI-guided NIRST is possible.
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- Jinchao Feng
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent System, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH 03755, USA
- Beijing Laboratory of Advanced Information Networks, Beijing 100124, China
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH 03755, USA
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Prospective assessment of adjunctive ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography in women undergoing breast biopsy: Impact on BI-RADS assessments. Eur J Radiol 2021; 145:110029. [PMID: 34801874 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.110029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Revised: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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PURPOSE To assess the impact of adjunctive ultrasound guided diffuse optical tomography (US-guided DOT) on BI-RADS assessment in women undergoing US-guided breast biopsy. METHOD This prospective study enrolled women referred for US-guided breast biopsy between 3/5/2019 and 3/19/2020. Participants underwent US-guided DOT immediately before biopsy. The US-guided DOT acquisition generated average maximum total hemoglobin (HbT) spatial maps and quantitative HbT values. Four radiologists blinded to histopathology assessed conventional imaging (CI) to assign a CI BI-RADS assessment and then integrated DOT information in assigning a CI&DOT BI-RADS assessment. HbT was compared between benign and malignant lesions using an ANOVA test and Tukey's test. Benign biopsies were tabulated, deeming BI-RADS ≥ 4A as positive. Reader agreement was assessed. RESULTS Among 61 included women (mean age 48 years), biopsy demonstrated 15 (24.6%) malignant and 46 (75.4%) benign lesions. Mean HbT was 55.3 ± 22.6 µM in benign lesions versus 85.4 ± 15.6 µM in cancers (p < .001). HbT threshold of 78.5 µM achieved sensitivity 80% (12/15) and specificity 89% (41/46) for malignancy. Across readers and patients, 197 pairs of CI BI-RADS and CI&DOT BI-RADS assessments were assigned. Adjunctive US-guided DOT achieved a net decrease in 23.5% (31/132) of suspicious (CI BI-RADS ≥ 4A) assessments of benign lesions (34 correct downgrades and 3 incorrect upgrades). 38.3% (31/81) of 4A assessments were appropriately downgraded. No cancer was downgraded to a non-actionable assessment. Interreader agreement analysis demonstrated kappa = 0.48-0.53 for CI BI-RADS and kappa = 0.28-0.44 for CI&DOT BI-RADS. CONCLUSIONS Integration of US-guided DOT information achieved a 23.5% reduction in suspicious BI-RADS assessments for benign lesions. Larger studies are warranted, with attention to improved reader agreement.
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Carbone NA, Vera DA, Iriarte DI, Pomarico JA, Macdonald R, Grosenick D. Camera-based CW Diffuse Optical Tomography for obtaining 3D absorption maps by means of digital tomosynthesis. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2020; 6. [PMID: 35039466 DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/abc633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We present a novel method for obtaining a 3D absorption map of a tissue-like turbid slab in the near-infrared spectral range by tomosynthesis. Transmittance data are obtained for a large number of oblique projection directions by scanning a cw laser source across the surface of the slab and by using a CCD camera for spatially resolved light detection. A perturbation model of light transport is used to convert the intensity maps for the different projections into absorption maps. By applying the tomosynthesis approach to these new maps, 3D absorption information on embedded inclusions has been obtained for the first time. The number and the positions of the lateral offset detectors have been optimized by employing a structural similarity index for comparison of the reconstructed with the true absorption data. We present 3D reconstruction of absorption maps using both Monte Carlo simulations and experiments on phantoms with breast-like optical properties. A comparison with conventional 3D reconstruction by a finite element approach shows the superior location performance of tomosynthesis.
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- N A Carbone
- CIFICEN (UNCPBA-CONICET-CICPBA), Pinto 399, B7000GHG Tandil, Argentina
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- CIFICEN (UNCPBA-CONICET-CICPBA), Pinto 399, B7000GHG Tandil, Argentina
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- CIFICEN (UNCPBA-CONICET-CICPBA), Pinto 399, B7000GHG Tandil, Argentina
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- CIFICEN (UNCPBA-CONICET-CICPBA), Pinto 399, B7000GHG Tandil, Argentina
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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A review of optical breast imaging: Multi-modality systems for breast cancer diagnosis. Eur J Radiol 2020; 129:109067. [PMID: 32497943 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2020.109067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This review of optical breast imaging describes basic physical and system principles and summarizes technological evolution with a focus on multi-modality platforms and recent clinical trial results. Ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography and co-registered ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging systems are emphasized as models of state of the art optical technology that are most conducive to clinical translation.
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Cochran JM, Busch DR, Lin L, Minkoff DL, Schweiger M, Arridge S, Yodh AG. Hybrid time-domain and continuous-wave diffuse optical tomography instrument with concurrent, clinical magnetic resonance imaging for breast cancer imaging. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2019; 24:1-11. [PMID: 30680976 PMCID: PMC6345326 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.24.5.051409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Diffuse optical tomography has demonstrated significant potential for clinical utility in the diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer, and its use in combination with other structural imaging modalities improves lesion localization and the quantification of functional tissue properties. Here, we introduce a hybrid diffuse optical imaging system that operates concurrently with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the imaging suite, utilizing commercially available MR surface coils. The instrument acquires both continuous-wave and time-domain diffuse optical data in the parallel-plate geometry, permitting both absolute assignment of tissue optical properties and three-dimensional tomography; moreover, the instrument is designed to incorporate diffuse correlation spectroscopic measurements for probing tissue blood flow. The instrument is described in detail here. Image reconstructions of a tissue phantom are presented as an initial indicator of the system's ability to accurately reconstruct optical properties and the concrete benefits of the spatial constraints provided by concurrent MRI. Last, we briefly discuss how various data combinations that the instrument could facilitate, including tissue perfusion, can enable more comprehensive assessment of lesion physiology.
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- Jeffrey M. Cochran
- University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Address all correspondence to Jeffrey M. Cochran, E-mail:
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- University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Dallas, Texas, United States
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Neurology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- California Institute of Technology, Department of Medical Engineering, Pasadena, California, United States
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- Emory University, Department of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- University College London, Centre for Medical Image Computing, London, United Kigdom
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- University College London, Centre for Medical Image Computing, London, United Kigdom
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- University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Feng J, Sun Q, Li Z, Sun Z, Jia K. Back-propagation neural network-based reconstruction algorithm for diffuse optical tomography. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2018; 24:1-12. [PMID: 30569669 PMCID: PMC6992907 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.24.5.051407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a promising noninvasive imaging modality and is capable of providing functional characteristics of biological tissue by quantifying optical parameters. The DOT image reconstruction is ill-posed and ill-conditioned, due to the highly diffusive nature of light propagation in biological tissues and limited boundary measurements. The widely used regularization technique for DOT image reconstruction is Tikhonov regularization, which tends to yield oversmoothed and low-quality images containing severe artifacts. It is necessary to accurately choose a regularization parameter for Tikhonov regularization. To overcome these limitations, we develop a noniterative reconstruction method, whereby optical properties are recovered based on a back-propagation neural network (BPNN). We train the parameters of BPNN before DOT image reconstruction based on a set of training data. DOT image reconstruction is achieved by implementing a single evaluation of the trained network. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we compare with the conventional Tikhonov regularization-based reconstruction method. The experimental results demonstrate that image quality and quantitative accuracy of reconstructed optical properties are significantly improved with the proposed algorithm.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jinchao Feng
- Beijing Univ. of Technology, China
- Beijing Lab. of Advanced Information Networks, China
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- Beijing Univ. of Technology, China
- Beijing Lab. of Advanced Information Networks, China
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- Beijing Univ. of Technology, China
- Beijing Lab. of Advanced Information Networks, China
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- Beijing Univ. of Technology, China
- Beijing Lab. of Advanced Information Networks, China
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Feng J, Jiang S, Pogue BW, Paulsen K. Weighting function effects in a direct regularization method for image-guided near-infrared spectral tomography of breast cancer. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 9:3266-3283. [PMID: 29984097 PMCID: PMC6033579 DOI: 10.1364/boe.9.003266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Revised: 05/23/2018] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Structural image-guided near-infrared spectral tomography (NIRST) has been developed as a way to use diffuse NIR spectroscopy within the context of image-guided quantification of tissue spectral features. A direct regularization imaging (DRI) method for NIRST has the value of not requiring any image segmentation. Here, we present a comprehensive investigational study to analyze the impact of the weighting function implied when weighting the recovery of optical coefficients in DRI based NIRST. This was done using simulations, phantom and clinical patient exam data. Simulations where the true object is known indicate that changes to this weighting function can vary the contrast by 10%, the contrast to noise ratio by 20% and the full width half maximum (FWHM) by 30%. The results from phantoms and human images show that a linear inverse distance weighting function appears optimal, and that incorporation of this function can generally improve the recovered total hemoglobin contrast of the tumor to the normal surrounding tissue by more than 15% in human cases.
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- Jinchao Feng
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent System, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH 03755, USA
- Beijing Laboratory of Advanced Information Networks, Beijing 100124, China
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, NH 03755, USA
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Zhang L, Jiang S, Zhao Y, Feng J, Pogue BW, Paulsen KD. Direct Regularization From Co-Registered Contrast MRI Improves Image Quality of MRI-Guided Near-Infrared Spectral Tomography of Breast Lesions. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2018; 37:1247-1252. [PMID: 29727287 PMCID: PMC5987778 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2018.2794548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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An approach using direct regularization from co-registered dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic reson- ance images was used to reconstruct near-infrared spectral tomography patient images, which does not need image segmentation. 20 patients with mammography/ultrasound confirmed breast abnormalities were involved in this paper, and the resulting images indicated that tumor total hemoglobin concentration contrast differentiated malignant from benign cases (p-value = 0.021). The approach prod- uced reconstructed images, which significantly reduced surface artifacts near the source-detector locations (p-value = 4.16e-6).
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Feng J, Xu J, Jiang S, Yin H, Zhao Y, Gui J, Wang K, Lv X, Ren F, Pogue BW, Paulsen KD. Addition of T2-guided optical tomography improves noncontrast breast magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis. Breast Cancer Res 2017; 19:117. [PMID: 29065920 PMCID: PMC5655871 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-017-0902-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background While dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE MRI) is recognized as the most sensitive examination for breast cancer detection, it has a substantial false positive rate and gadolinium (Gd) contrast agents are not universally well tolerated. As a result, alternatives to diagnosing breast cancer based on endogenous contrast are of growing interest. In this study, endogenous near-infrared spectral tomography (NIRST) guided by T2 MRI was evaluated to explore whether the combined imaging modality, which does not require contrast injection or involve ionizing radiation, can achieve acceptable diagnostic performance. Methods Twenty-four subjects—16 with pathologically confirmed malignancy and 8 with benign abnormalities—were simultaneously imaged with MRI and NIRST prior to definitive pathological diagnosis. MRIs were evaluated independently by three breast radiologists blinded to the pathological results. Optical image reconstructions were constrained by grayscale values in the T2 MRI. MRI and NIRST images were used, alone and in combination, to estimate the diagnostic performance of the data. Outcomes were compared to DCE results. Results Sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and area under the curve (AUC) of noncontrast MRI when combined with T2-guided NIRST were 94%, 100%, 96%, and 0.95, respectively, whereas these values were 94%, 63%, 88%, and 0.81 for DCE MRI alone, and 88%, 88%, 88%, and 0.94 when DCE-guided NIRST was added. Conclusion In this study, the overall accuracy of imaging diagnosis improved to 96% when T2-guided NIRST was added to noncontrast MRI alone, relative to 88% for DCE MRI, suggesting that similar or better diagnostic accuracy can be achieved without requiring a contrast agent. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13058-017-0902-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jinchao Feng
- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA.,Information Technology of Faculty, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Xi'an, 710032, China
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Xi'an, 710032, China.
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Xi'an, 710032, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Xi'an, 710032, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, Xi'an, 710032, China
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA.
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to summarize the physical principles, technology features, and first clinical applications of optical imaging techniques to the breast. CONCLUSION Light-breast tissue interaction is expressed as absorption and scattering coefficients, allowing image reconstruction based on endogenous or exogenous contrast. Diffuse optical spectroscopy and imaging, fluorescence molecular tomography, photoacoustic imaging, and multiparametric infrared imaging show potential for clinical application, especially for lesion characterization, estimation of cancer probability, and monitoring the effect of neoadjuvant therapy.
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Mastanduno MA, Gambhir SS. Quantitative photoacoustic image reconstruction improves accuracy in deep tissue structures. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 7:3811-3825. [PMID: 27867695 PMCID: PMC5102520 DOI: 10.1364/boe.7.003811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2016] [Revised: 08/05/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is emerging as a potentially powerful imaging tool with multiple applications. Image reconstruction for PAI has been relatively limited because of limited or no modeling of light delivery to deep tissues. This work demonstrates a numerical approach to quantitative photoacoustic image reconstruction that minimizes depth and spectrally derived artifacts. We present the first time-domain quantitative photoacoustic image reconstruction algorithm that models optical sources through acoustic data to create quantitative images of absorption coefficients. We demonstrate quantitative accuracy of less than 5% error in large 3 cm diameter 2D geometries with multiple targets and within 22% error in the largest size quantitative photoacoustic studies to date (6cm diameter). We extend the algorithm to spectral data, reconstructing 6 varying chromophores to within 17% of the true values. This quantitiative PA tomography method was able to improve considerably on filtered-back projection from the standpoint of image quality, absolute, and relative quantification in all our simulation geometries. We characterize the effects of time step size, initial guess, and source configuration on final accuracy. This work could help to generate accurate quantitative images from both endogenous absorbers and exogenous photoacoustic dyes in both preclinical and clinical work, thereby increasing the information content obtained especially from deep-tissue photoacoustic imaging studies.
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Feng J, Jiang S, Xu J, Zhao Y, Pogue BW, Paulsen KD. Multiobjective guided priors improve the accuracy of near-infrared spectral tomography for breast imaging. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2016; 21:90506. [PMID: 27658468 PMCID: PMC5034016 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.21.9.090506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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An image reconstruction regularization approach for magnetic resonance imaging-guided near-infrared spectral tomography has been developed to improve quantification of total hemoglobin (HbT) and water. By combining prior information from dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) and diffusion weighted (DW) MR images, the absolute bias errors of HbT and water in the tumor were reduced by 22% and 18%, 21% and 6%, and 10% and 11%, compared to that in the no-prior, DCE- or DW-guided reconstructed images in three-dimensional simulations, respectively. In addition, the apparent contrast values of HbT and water were increased in patient image reconstruction from 1.4 and 1.4 (DCE) or 1.8 and 1.4 (DW) to 4.6 and 1.6.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jinchao Feng
- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
- Beijing University of Technology, College of Electronics Information and Control Engineering, Beijing 100124, China
- Address all correspondence to: Jinchao Feng, E-mail: ; Keith D. Paulsen, E-mail:
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- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
- Xijing Hospital, Department of Radiology, Xi’an 710032, China
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- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
- Address all correspondence to: Jinchao Feng, E-mail: ; Keith D. Paulsen, E-mail:
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Zhao Y, Pogue BW, Haider SJ, Gui J, diFlorio-Alexander RM, Paulsen KD, Jiang S. Portable, parallel 9-wavelength near-infrared spectral tomography (NIRST) system for efficient characterization of breast cancer within the clinical oncology infusion suite. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 7:2186-201. [PMID: 27375937 PMCID: PMC4918575 DOI: 10.1364/boe.7.002186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2016] [Revised: 05/05/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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A portable near-infrared spectral tomography (NIRST) system was developed with simultaneous frequency domain (FD) and continuous-wave (CW) optical measurements for efficient characterization of breast cancer in a clinical oncology setting. Simultaneous FD and CW recordings were implemented to speed up acquisition to 3 minutes for all 9 wavelengths, spanning a range from 661nm to 1064nm. An adjustable interface was designed to fit various breast sizes and shapes. Spatial images of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin, water, lipid, and scattering components were reconstructed using a 2D FEM approach. The system was tested on a group of 10 normal subjects, who were examined bilaterally and the recovered optical images were compared to radiographic breast density. Significantly higher total hemoglobin and water were estimated in the high density relative to low density groups. One patient with invasive ductal carcinoma was also examined and the cancer region was characterized as having a contrast ratio of 1.4 in total hemoglobin and 1.2 in water.
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- Yan Zhao
- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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