Out-of-plane artifact removal in photoacoustic imaging using transducer array displacement

H. N.Y. Nguyen, W. Steenbergen

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Abstract

Current research has been extensively focusing on translating photoacoustic imaging into clinics using ultrasound handheld probes. However, a major drawback of these probes is the occurrence of artifacts which might lead to critical image misinterpretation. In-plane and out-of-plane artifacts are the two types of the artifacts in photoacoustic imaging. Recently we have reported a method for identifying reflection artifacts (in-plane artifacts). In this work, we propose a new method for removing out-of-plane artifacts by displacing the transducer array. Using transducer array displacement, out-of-plane artifacts can be de-correlated with in-plane image features and thus removed. We experimentally demonstrated this method with experiments in phantoms as well as in vivo. Results show that this is a promising approach for correcting out-of-plane artifacts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOpto-Acoustic Methods and Applications in Biophotonics IV
EditorsVasilis Ntziachristos, Roger Zemp
PublisherSPIE
Volume11077
ISBN (Electronic)9781510628472
ISBN (Print)978-1-5106-2847-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jul 2019
EventOpto-Acoustic Methods and Applications in Biophotonics IV 2019 - ICM─International Congress Center, Munich, Germany
Duration: 24 Jun 201925 Jun 2019
Conference number: 4

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume11077
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Conference

ConferenceOpto-Acoustic Methods and Applications in Biophotonics IV 2019
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period24/06/1925/06/19

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