Phase analysis strategies for MHz OCE in the large displacement regime

Sazgar Burhan; Nicolas Detrez; Katharina Rewerts; Madita Göb; Steffen Buschschlüter; Christian Hagel; Matteo Mario Bonsanto M.D.; Dirk Theisen-Kunde; Robert Huber; Ralf Brinkmann

doi:10.1117/12.2652847

8 March 2023 Phase analysis strategies for MHz OCE in the large displacement regime

Sazgar Burhan, Nicolas Detrez, Katharina Rewerts, Madita Göb, Steffen Buschschlüter, Christian Hagel, Matteo Mario Bonsanto M.D., Dirk Theisen-Kunde, Robert Huber, Ralf Brinkmann

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Proceedings Volume 12367, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXVII; 123670Q (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2652847
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States

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In neurosurgical tumor operations on the central nervous system, intraoperative haptic information often assists for discrimination between healthy and diseased tissue. Thus, it can provide the neurosurgeon with additional intraoperative source of information during resection, next to the visual information by the light microscope, fluorescent dyes and neuronavigation. One approach to obtain elastic and viscoelastic tissue characteristics non-subjectively is phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography (OCE), which is based on the principle of optical coherence tomography (OCT). While phase-sensitive OCE offers significantly higher displacement sensitivity inside a sample than commonly used intensity-based correlation methods, it requires a reliable algorithm to recover the phase signal, which is mathematically restricted in the -π to π range. This problem of phase wrapping is especially critical for inter-frame phase analysis since the time intervals between two referenced voxels is long. Here, we demonstrate a one-dimensional unwrapping algorithm capable of removing up to 4π-ambiguities between two frames in the complex phase data obtained from a 3.2 MHz-OCT system. The high sampling rate allows us to resolve large sample displacements induced by a 200 ms air pulse and acquires pixel-precise detail information. The deformation behavior of the tissue can be monitored over the entire acquisition time, offering various subsequent mechanical analysis procedures. The reliability of the algorithm and imaging concept was initially evaluated using different brain tumor mimicking phantoms. Additionally, results from human ex vivo brain tumor samples are presented and correlated with histological findings supporting the robustness of the algorithm.

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Sazgar Burhan, Nicolas Detrez, Katharina Rewerts, Madita Göb, Steffen Buschschlüter, Christian Hagel, Matteo Mario Bonsanto M.D., Dirk Theisen-Kunde, Robert Huber, and Ralf Brinkmann "Phase analysis strategies for MHz OCE in the large displacement regime", Proc. SPIE 12367, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXVII, 123670Q (8 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2652847

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