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Jung D, Park S, Lee C, Kim H. Recent Progress on Near-Infrared Photoacoustic Imaging: Imaging Modality and Organic Semiconducting Agents. Polymers (Basel) 2019; 11:E1693. [PMID: 31623160 PMCID: PMC6836006 DOI: 10.3390/polym11101693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Over the past few decades, the photoacoustic (PA) effect has been widely investigated, opening up diverse applications, such as photoacoustic spectroscopy, estimation of chemical energies, or point-of-care detection. Notably, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has also been developed and has recently received considerable attention in bio-related or clinical imaging fields, as it now facilitates an imaging platform in the near-infrared (NIR) region by taking advantage of the significant advancement of exogenous imaging agents. The NIR PAI platform now paves the way for high-resolution, deep-tissue imaging, which is imperative for contemporary theragnosis, a combination of precise diagnosis and well-timed therapy. This review reports the recent progress on NIR PAI modality, as well as semiconducting contrast agents, and outlines the trend in current NIR imaging and provides further direction for the prospective development of PAI systems.
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- Doyoung Jung
- School of Polymer Science and Engineering & Alan G. MacDiarmid Energy Research Institute, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Korea.
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- Interdisciplinary Program of Molecular Medicine, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Korea.
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- Interdisciplinary Program of Molecular Medicine, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Korea.
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School & Hwasun Hospital, 264, Seoyang-ro, Hwasun-eup, Hwasun-gun, Jeollanam-do 58128, Korea.
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- School of Polymer Science and Engineering & Alan G. MacDiarmid Energy Research Institute, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Korea.
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Mozaffarzadeh M, Periyasamy V, Pramanik M, Makkiabadi B. Efficient nonlinear beamformer based on P'th root of detected signals for linear-array photoacoustic tomography: application to sentinel lymph node imaging. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2018; 23:1-12. [PMID: 30054995 PMCID: PMC8357197 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.23.12.121604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
In linear-array transducer-based photoacoustic (PA) imaging, B-scan PA images are formed using the raw channel PA signals. Delay-and-sum (DAS) is the most prevalent algorithm due to its simple implementation, but it leads to low-quality images. Delay-multiply-and-sum (DMAS) provides a higher image quality in comparison with DAS while it imposes a computational burden of O ( M2 ) . We introduce a nonlinear (NL) beamformer for linear-array PA imaging, which uses the p'th root of the detected signals and imposes the complexity of DAS [O ( M ) ]. The proposed algorithm is evaluated numerically and experimentally [wire-target and in-vivo sentinel lymph node (SLN) imaging], and the effects of the parameter p are investigated. The results show that the NL algorithm, using a root of p (NL_p), leads to lower sidelobes and higher signal-to-noise ratio compared with DAS and DMAS, for (p > 2). The sidelobes level (for the wire-target phantom), at the depth of 11.4 mm, are about -31, -52, -52, -67, -88, and -109 dB, for DAS, DMAS, NL_2, NL_3, NL_4, and NL_5, respectively, indicating the superiority of the NL_p algorithm. In addition, the best value of p for SLN imaging is reported to be 12.
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- Moein Mozaffarzadeh
- Institute for Advanced Medical Technologies (IAMT), Research Center for Biomedical Technologies and Robotics (RCBTR), Tehran, Iran
- Tarbiat Modares University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran
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- Nanyang Technological University, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Singapore
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- Nanyang Technological University, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Singapore
- Address all correspondence to: Manojit Pramanik, E-mail: ; Bahador Makkiabadi, E-mail:
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- Institute for Advanced Medical Technologies (IAMT), Research Center for Biomedical Technologies and Robotics (RCBTR), Tehran, Iran
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran
- Address all correspondence to: Manojit Pramanik, E-mail: ; Bahador Makkiabadi, E-mail:
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Li M, Liu C, Gong X, Zheng R, Bai Y, Xing M, Du X, Liu X, Zeng J, Lin R, Zhou H, Wang S, Lu G, Zhu W, Fang C, Song L. Linear array-based real-time photoacoustic imaging system with a compact coaxial excitation handheld probe for noninvasive sentinel lymph node mapping. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 9:1408-1422. [PMID: 29675292 PMCID: PMC5905896 DOI: 10.1364/boe.9.001408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Revised: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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We developed a linear ultrasound array-based real-time photoacoustic imaging system with a compact coaxial excitation handheld photoacoustic imaging probe for guiding sentinel lymph node (SLN) needle biopsy. Compared with previous studies, our system and probe have the following advantages: (1) the imaging probe is quite compact and user-friendly; (2) laser illumination and ultrasonic detection are achieved coaxially, enabling high signal-to-noise ratio; and (3) GPU-based image reconstruction enables real-time imaging and displaying at a frame rate of 20 Hz. With the system and probe, clear visualization of the SLN at the depth of 2 cm (~human SLN depth) was demonstrated on a living rat. A fine needle was pushed towards the SLN based on the guidance of real-time photoacoustic imaging. The proposed photoacoustic imaging system and probe was shown to have great potential to be used in clinics for guiding SLN needle biopsy, which may reduce the high morbidity rate related to the current gold standard clinical SLN biopsy procedure.
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- Mucong Li
- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Equal Contribution
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Beijing Center for Mathematics and Information Interdisciplinary Sciences (BCMIIS), Beijing 100048, China
- Equal Contribution
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210002, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210002, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510280, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510280, China
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- Research Laboratory for Biomedical Optics and Molecular Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Beijing Center for Mathematics and Information Interdisciplinary Sciences (BCMIIS), Beijing 100048, China
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