Three-dimensional photoacoustic imaging using fiber-based line detectors

Hubert Grün; Thomas Berer; Peter Burgholzer; Robert Nuster; Günther Paltauf

doi:10.1117/1.3381186

1 March 2010 Three-dimensional photoacoustic imaging using fiber-based line detectors

Hubert Grün, Thomas Berer, Peter Burgholzer, Robert Nuster, Günther Paltauf

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 15, Issue 2, 021306 (March 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3381186

Abstract

For photoacoustic imaging, usually point-like detectors are used. As a special sensing technology for photoacoustic imaging, integrating detectors have been investigated that integrate the acoustic pressure over an area or line that is larger than the imaged object. Different kinds of optical fiber-based detectors are compared regarding their sensitivity and resolution in three-dimensional photoacoustic tomography. In the same type of interferometer, polymer optical fibers yielded much higher sensitivity than glass fibers. Fabry-Pérot glass-fiber interferometers in turn gave higher sensitivity than Mach-Zehnder-type interferometers. Regarding imaging resolution, the single-mode glass fiber showed the best performance. Last, three-dimensional images of phantoms and insects using a glass-fiber-based Fabry-Pérot interferometer as integrating line detector are presented.

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Hubert Grün, Thomas Berer, Peter Burgholzer, Robert Nuster, and Günther Paltauf "Three-dimensional photoacoustic imaging using fiber-based line detectors," Journal of Biomedical Optics 15(2), 021306 (1 March 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3381186

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Sensors

Optical fibers

3D image processing

Photoacoustic imaging

Interferometers

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