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Snapshot time-reversed ultrasonically encoded optical focusing guided by time-reversed photoacoustic wave

Journal

PHOTOACOUSTICS
Volume 26, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2022.100352

Keywords

Optical focusing; Ultrasound modulation; Photoacoustic time-reversal; Acoustic heterogeneity

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61805139]

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In this study, we proposed a new method that combines accurate ultrasonic focusing guided by time-reversing photoacoustic (PA) signals and ultrasound modulation with optical phase conjugation (OPC) to achieve dynamic focusing of light in deep tissue. Compared to traditional methods, this approach significantly improves focusing accuracy and is more suitable for applications with severe acoustic distortion.
Deep-tissue optical imaging is a longstanding challenge limited by scattering. Both optical imaging and treatment can benefit from focusing light in deep tissue beyond one transport mean free path. Wavefront shaping based on time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) optical focusing utilizes ultrasound focus, which is much less scattered than light in biological tissues as the 'guide star'. However, the traditional TRUE is limited by the ultrasound focusing area and pressure tagging efficiency, especially in acoustically heterogeneous medium. Even the improved version of iterative TRUE comes at a large time consumption, which limits the application of TRUE. To address this problem, we proposed a method called time-reversed photoacoustic wave guided time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRPA-TRUE) optical focusing by integrating accurate ultrasonic focusing through acoustically heterogeneous medium guided by time-reversing PA signals, and the ultrasound modulation of diffused coherent light with optical phase conjugation (OPC), achieving dynamic focusing of light into scattering medium. Simulation results show that the focusing accuracy of the proposed method has been significantly improved compared with conventional TRUE, which is more suitable for practical applications that suffers severe acoustic distortion, e.g. transcranial optical focusing.

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