Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40124465›Full record

ArticleJournal of biomedical optics2025

Sustained real-time and video-rate interventional optical ultrasound imaging.

Robert M Stafford-Williams, Richard J Colchester, Semyon Bodian, Seán Cardiff, Efthymios Maneas, Edward Z Zhang, Paul C Beard, Manish K Tiwari, Adrien E Desjardins, Erwin J Alles

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of biomedical optics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Robert M Stafford-WilliamsUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2451-8125
Richard J ColchesterUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.
Semyon BodianUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.
Seán CardiffUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.
Efthymios ManeasUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5455-6854
Edward Z ZhangUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.
Paul C BeardUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.
Manish K TiwariUniversity College London, Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.
Adrien E DesjardinsUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1932-1811
Erwin J AllesUniversity College London, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1658-4421

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significance: Minimally invasive surgery offers improved recovery times and reduced complication risk compared with open surgery. However, effective image acquisition probes suitable for deployment in clinical workflows are key to the success of such procedures. Fiber-optic optical ultrasound (OpUS) offers strong potential for interventional image guidance due to its small lateral probe dimensions and high imaging resolution, but to date, such miniature imaging probes have only yielded M-mode (single image line) or still images. Aim: Here, we present a motorized actuation approach to fiber-optic interventional OpUS imaging that enables sustained and video-rate imaging while retaining its small form factor. Approach: A fabrication method utilizing a commercial laser cutter is presented that yields partially forward-emitting OpUS sources ideally suited for interventional image guidance. These transmitters were incorporated into a miniature imaging probe with a width of just Results: The presented imaging paradigm achieved real-time, two-dimensional OpUS imaging at frame rates of up to 7 Hz and was capable of high-resolution imaging ( Conclusions: These results constitute the first-ever sustained, real-time dynamic imaging using a side-viewing single-element OpUS probe via rapid actuation, which enables a wide range of applications in minimally invasive surgical guidance.

Indexed as

Fiber Optic TechnologyOptical ImagingUltrasonography, InterventionalEquipment DesignHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedPhantoms, ImagingVideo Recordinginterventional optical ultrasound imaginglinearly actuated aperture scanningoblique optical ultrasound emitterpulmonary optical ultrasound

Identifiers

PMID40124465
PMCPMC11927002

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.