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ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2021

3D acoustic resolution-based photoacoustic endoscopy with dynamic focusing.

Bo Wang, Congcong Wang, Fangyi Zhong, Weiran Pang, Lili Guo, Kuan Peng, Jiaying Xiao

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Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Bo WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Congcong WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Fangyi ZhongDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Guangzhou Huaxia Vocational College, Guangzhou, China.
Weiran PangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Lili GuoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
Kuan PengDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Jiaying XiaoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.

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Abstract

backgroundAcoustic resolution-based photoacoustic endoscopy (ARPAE) is a non-invasive potential tool for imaging gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts. However, current ARPAE systems usually only provide 2D sectorial B-mode images, and have the limitation of the image quality significantly deteriorating out-of-focus regions due to transducers with fixed focus in these systems. To overcome these limitations, we put forward a modified back-projection method that can provide 3D images with dynamic focusing in ARPAE.

methodsA graphics processing unit (GPU)-based parallel computation technique was adopted for efficient computation. Both simulated and phantom/ex-vivo experiments were conducted to validate our method.

resultsThe findings indicated that our proposed method can effectively improve the lateral resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the out-of-focus regions. For a target 3 mm from the transducer focus, the new method can improve 11 times in the lateral resolution, along with an improvement of up to 37 dB in the SNR.

conclusions3D ARPAE provides high-quality imaging in both focus and out-of-focus regions.

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dynamic focusinglateral resolutionPhotoacoustic endoscopysignal-to-noise ratio

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PMID33532268
PMCPMC7779925

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