A new approach to depict bone surfaces in finger imaging using photoacoustic tomography

Samir Kumar Biswas, Peter van Es, Wiendelt Steenbergen, Srirang Manohar

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Abstract

Imaging the vasculature close around the finger joints is of interest in the field of rheumatology. Locally increased vasculature in the synovial membrane of these joints can be a marker for rheumatoid arthritis. In previous work we showed that part of the photoacoustically induced ultrasound from the epidermis reflects on the bone surface within the finger. These reflected signals could be wrongly interpreted as new photoacoustic sources. In this work we show that a conventional ultrasound reconstruction algorithm, that considers the skin as a collection of ultrasound transmitters and the PA tomography probe as the detector array, can be used to delineate bone surfaces of a finger. This can in the future assist in the localization of the joint gaps. This can provide us with a landmark to localize the region of the inflamed synovial membrane. We test the approach on finger mimicking phantoms. © (2015) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPhotons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2015
EditorsAlexander A. Oraevsky, Lihong V. Wang
Place of PublicationSan Francisco, CA
PublisherSPIE
Pages932322-
ISBN (Print)9781628414134
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Feb 2015
EventPhotons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2015 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 8 Feb 201510 Feb 2015

Publication series

Name
PublisherSPIE
Volume9323
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferencePhotons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period8/02/1510/02/15

Keywords

  • IR-98098
  • METIS-312249

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