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- Title
Transmissive multifocal laser speckle contrast imaging through thick tissue.
- Authors
Chen, Ruoyu; Miao, Peng; Tong, Shanbao
- Abstract
Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a powerful tool for monitoring blood flow changes in tissue or vessels in vivo, but its applications are limited by shallow penetration depth under reflective imaging configuration. The traditional LSCI setup has been used in transmissive imaging for depth extension up to 2 l t – 3 l t ( l t is the transport mean free path), but the blood flow estimation is biased due to the depth uncertainty in large depth of field (DOF) images. In this study, we propose a transmissive multifocal LSCI for depth-resolved blood flow in thick tissue, further extending the transmissive LSCI for tissue thickness up to 1 2 l t . The limited-DOF imaging system is applied to the multifocal acquisition, and the depth of the vessel is estimated using a robust visibility parameter V r in the coherent domain. The accuracy and linearity of depth estimation are tested by Monte Carlo simulations. Based on the proposed method, the model of contrast analysis resolving the depth information is established and verified in a phantom experiment. We demonstrated its effectiveness in acquiring depth-resolved vessel structures and flow dynamics in in vivo imaging of chick embryos.
- Subjects
SPECKLE interference; SPECKLE interferometry; MONTE Carlo method; BLOOD flow; IMAGING systems; TISSUES
- Publication
Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1793-5458
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S1793545823500050