Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS
Volume 24, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.24.12.121908
Keywords
blood oxygenation; flow; phantom; photoacoustic tomography
Funding
- Cancer Research UK [C47594/A16267, C14303/A17197]
- EPSRC-CRUK Cancer Imaging Centre in Cambridge and Manchester [C197/A16465, C8742/A18097]
- CRUK CI Core Facilities
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Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is intrinsically sensitive to blood oxygen saturation (sO(2)) in vivo. However, making accurate sO(2) measurements without knowledge of tissue- and instrumentation-related correction factors is extremely challenging. We have developed a low-cost flow phantom to facilitate validation of PAT systems. The phantom is composed of a flow circuit of tubing partially embedded within a tissue-mimicking material, with independent sensors providing online monitoring of the optical absorption spectrum and partial pressure of oxygen in the tube. We first test the flow phantom using two small molecule dyes that are frequently used for photoacoustic imaging: methylene blue and indocyanine green. We then demonstrate the potential of the phantom for evaluating sO(2) using chemical oxygenation and deoxygenation of blood in the circuit. Using this dynamic assessment of the photoacoustic sO(2) measurement in phantoms in relation to a ground truth, we explore the influence of multispectral processing and spectral coloring on accurate assessment of sO(2). Future studies could exploit this low-cost dynamic flow phantom to validate fluence correction algorithms and explore additional blood parameters such as pH and also absorptive and other properties of different fluids. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License.
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