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Laser speckle contrast imaging for assessing flow velocities and scatterer concentration in capillary phantoms
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2011
Abstract
Imaging of tissue perfusion is a vital tool in assessing the status of various diseases that are reflected in the microcirculation. Different techniques developed for imaging microcirculation as well as assessing red blood cell (RBC) concentration are lacking quantitative flow information, whole field imaging capability and non invasiveness. This paper reports on a whole field, non invasive laser speckle imaging technique to quantitatively assess the capillary flow variations and scatterer concentration using microcirculation phantoms. A capillary phantom has been fabricated on two perspex sheets of 12mm thickness each. The flow channels of depth 0.7 and 2mm were machined in the sheets and blood mimicking phantom solution of desired concentration was pumped using a syringe infusion pump (RH-SY10, Ravel Hitecks, India) to get the desired flow rate. The phantom was illuminated with a He Ne laser (ThorLabs) and the resulting speckle pattern was captured using a CCD camera and frame grabber card and the images were analysed using the developed algorithm. The experimental set up is shown in Fig.1. © 2011 IEEE.
About the journal
Journal2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011
Open AccessNo
Concepts (27)
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    Experimental setup
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    FIELD IMAGING
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    FLOW CHANNELS
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    FLOW INFORMATIONS
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    FLOW VARIATIONS
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    FRAME GRABBER
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    HE-NE LASERS
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    INVASIVENESS
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    LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING
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    LASER SPECKLE IMAGING
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    Non-invasive
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    RED BLOOD CELL
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    SCATTERER CONCENTRATIONS
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    SPECKLE PATTERNS
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    SYRINGE INFUSION PUMP
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    TISSUE PERFUSION
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    Blood
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    Blood vessels
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    CCD CAMERAS
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    Concentration (process)
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    Electron optics
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    Imaging techniques
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    Microcirculation
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    Optics
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    Quantum electronics
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    Tissue
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    Speckle