Publication Type : Conference Paper
Publisher : Saratov Fall Meeting 2006: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine VIII,
Source : Saratov Fall Meeting 2006: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine VIII, International Society for Optics and Photonics (2007)
Url : https://doi.org/10.1117/12.740958
Campus : Amritapuri
School : School of Engineering
Department : Electronics and Communication
Year : 2007
Abstract : We use a focused ultrasound beam to load a region of interest (ROI) in a tissue-mimicking phantom and read out the vibration amplitude of phantom particles from the modulation depth in the intensity autocorrelation of a coherent light beam that intercepted the ROI. The modulation depth, which is also affected by the local light absorption coefficient, which is employed in ultrasound assisted optical tomography, to read out absorption coefficient is greatly influenced by the vibration amplitude, depends to a great extend on local elasticity. We scan a plane in an elastography phantom with an inhomogeneous inclusion, in elasticity with the focused ultrasound and from the measured modulation depth variation create a qualitative map of the elasticity variation in the interrogated plane.
Cite this Research Publication : Ushadevi Amma C., R. Sreekumari Bharat Chandran, R. Mohan Vasu, and Ajay K. Sood, “Elasticity mapping of tissue mimicking phantoms by remote palpation with a focused ultrasound beam and intensity autocorrelation measurements”, in Saratov Fall Meeting 2006: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine VIII, 2007.