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- Title
Optical Sensing of Tissue Freezing Depth by Sapphire Cryo-Applicator and Steady-State Diffuse Reflectance Analysis.
- Authors
Zotov, Arsen K.; Pushkarev, Aleksandr V.; Alekseeva, Anna I.; Zaytsev, Kirill I.; Ryabikin, Sergey S.; Tsiganov, Dmitry I.; Zhidkov, Dmitriy A.; Burkov, Ivan A.; Kurlov, Vladimir N.; Dolganova, Irina N.
- Abstract
This work describes a sapphire cryo-applicator with the ability to sense tissue freezing depth during cryosurgery by illumination of tissue and analyzing diffuse optical signals in a steady-state regime. The applicator was manufactured by the crystal growth technique and has several spatially resolved internal channels for accommodating optical fibers. The method of reconstructing freezing depth proposed in this work requires one illumination and two detection channels. The analysis of the detected intensities yields the estimation of the time evolution of the effective attenuation coefficient, which is compared with the theoretically calculated values obtained for a number of combinations of tissue parameters. The experimental test of the proposed applicator and approach for freezing depth reconstruction was performed using gelatin-based tissue phantom and rat liver tissue in vivo. It revealed the ability to estimate depth up to 8 mm. The in vivo study confirmed the feasibility of the applicator to sense the freezing depth of living tissues despite the possible diversity of their optical parameters. The results justify the potential of the described design of a sapphire instrument for cryosurgery.
- Subjects
SAPPHIRES; REFLECTANCE; FREEZING; ATTENUATION coefficients; OPTICAL fibers; CRYSTAL growth
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2024, Vol 24, Issue 11, p3655
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s24113655