Improved method to visualize lipid distribution within arterial vessel walls by 1.7 μm spectroscopic spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

Mitsuharu Hirano; Shozo Tonosaki; Takahiro Ueno; Masato Tanaka; Takemi Hasegawa

doi:10.1117/12.2039024

27 February 2014 Improved method to visualize lipid distribution within arterial vessel walls by 1.7 μm spectroscopic spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

Mitsuharu Hirano, Shozo Tonosaki, Takahiro Ueno, Masato Tanaka, Takemi Hasegawa

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Proceedings Volume 8935, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems XII; 893517 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039024
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report an improved method to visualize lipid distribution in axial and lateral direction within arterial vessel walls by spectroscopic spectral-domain Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) at 1.7μm wavelength for identification of lipidrich plaque that is suspected to cause coronary events. In our previous method, an extended InGaAs-based line camera detects an OCT interferometric spectrum from 1607 to 1766 nm, which is then divided into twenty subbands, and A-scan OCT profile is calculated for each subband, resulting in a tomographic spectrum. This tomographic spectrum is decomposed into lipid spectrum having an attenuation peak at 1730 nm and non-lipid spectrum independent of wavelength, and the weight of each spectrum, that is, lipid and non-lipid score is calculated. In this paper, we present an improved algorithm, in which we have combined the lipid score and the non-lipid score to derive a corrected lipid score. We have found that the corrected lipid score is better than the raw lipid score in that the former is more robust against false positive occurring due to abrupt change in reflectivity at vessel surface. In addition, we have optimized spatial smoothing filter and reduced false positive and false negative due to detection noise and speckle. We have verified this improved algorithm by the use of measuring data of normal porcine coronary artery and lard as a model of lipid-rich plaque and confirmed that both the sensitivity and the specificity of lard are 92%.

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Mitsuharu Hirano, Shozo Tonosaki, Takahiro Ueno, Masato Tanaka, and Takemi Hasegawa "Improved method to visualize lipid distribution within arterial vessel walls by 1.7 μm spectroscopic spectral-domain optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 8935, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems XII, 893517 (27 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039024

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