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Simulation of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) system in COMSOL and comparison of two popular reconstruction techniques
C. Sowmiya,
Published in SPIE
2017
Volume: 10137
   
Abstract
Photoacoustic imaging is a molecular cum functional imaging modality based on differential optical absorption of the incident laser pulse by the endogeneous tissue chromophores. Several numerical simulations and finite element models have been developed in the past to describe and study Photoacoustic (PA) signal generation principles and study the effect of variation in PA parameters. Most of these simulation work concentrate on analyzing extracted 1D PA signals and each of them mostly describe only few of the building blocks of a Photoacoustic Tomography (PAT) imaging system. Papers describing simulation of the entire PAT system in one simulation platform, along with reconstruction is seemingly rare. This study attempts to describe how a commercially available Finite Element software (COMSOL(R)), can serve as a single platform for simulating PAT that couples the electromagnetic, thermodynamic and acoustic pressure physics involved in PA phenomena. Further, an array of detector elements placed at the boundary in the FE model can provide acoustic pressure data that can be exported to Matlab(R) to perform tomographic image reconstruction. The performance of two most commonly used image reconstruction techniques; namely, Filtered Backprojection (FBP) and Synthetic Aperture (SA) beamforming are compared. Results obtained showed that the lateral resolution obtained using FBP vs. SA largely depends on the aperture parameters. FBP reconstruction was able to provide a slightly better lateral resolution for smaller aperture while SA worked better for larger aperture. This interesting effect is currently being investigated further. Computationally FBP was faster, but it had artifacts along the spherical shell on which the data is projected. © 2017 SPIE.
About the journal
JournalData powered by TypesetProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
PublisherData powered by TypesetSPIE
ISSN16057422
Open AccessNo
Concepts (20)
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    Biomedical signal processing
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    Chromophores
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    Electromagnetic wave absorption
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    Finite element method
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    Image processing
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    Light absorption
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    MATLAB
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    Medical applications
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    Medical imaging
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    Molecular imaging
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    Photoacoustic effect
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    Synthetic apertures
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    Tomography
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    Tumors
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    COMSOL
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    DELAY AND SUMS
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    FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION
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    PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY
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    Simulation
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    Image reconstruction