Time-resolved fluorescent imaging in tissue

David W. Hattery; Victor V. Chernomordik; Murray H. Loew; Israel Gannot; Amir H. Gandjbakhche

doi:10.1117/12.349513

28 May 1999 Time-resolved fluorescent imaging in tissue

David W. Hattery, Victor V. Chernomordik, Murray H. Loew, Israel Gannot, Amir H. Gandjbakhche

Proceedings Volume 3659, Medical Imaging 1999: Physics of Medical Imaging; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.349513
Event: Medical Imaging '99, 1999, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Fluorescence lifetime imaging is a useful tool for quantifying site-dependent environmental conditions in tissue. Fluorophores exist with known lifetime dependencies on factors such as concentrations of O₂ and other specific molecules, as well as on temperature and pH. Extracting fluorophore lifetime for deeply embedded sites in turbid media such as tissue is made difficult by the multiple scattering of photons traveling through tissue. This scattering introduces photon arrival delays that have similar characteristics to the delays resulting from the excitation and subsequent emission of photons by fluorophores. Random walk theory (RWT) provides a framework in which the two sources of diffusion-like delays can be separated so that the part due to fluorescent lifetime can be quantified. We derive a closed-form solution that predicts time-resolved photon arrivals from a deeply embedded fluorophore site. The solution requires that an average absorption coefficient be used. However, it is shown that this assumption introduces only a small error. This RWT-derived solution is also shown to be valid for a range of geometries in which the fluorophore site is embedded at least 10 mean scattering lengths and in which the fluorophore lifetime is less than 1 ns.

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David W. Hattery, Victor V. Chernomordik, Murray H. Loew, Israel Gannot, and Amir H. Gandjbakhche "Time-resolved fluorescent imaging in tissue", Proc. SPIE 3659, Medical Imaging 1999: Physics of Medical Imaging, (28 May 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.349513

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