Time-domain diffuse optics: towards next generation devices

Davide Contini; Alberto Dalla Mora; Simon Arridge; Fabrizio Martelli; Alberto Tosi; Gianluca Boso; Andrea Farina; Turgut Durduran; Edoardo Martinenghi; Alessandro Torricelli; Antonio Pifferi

doi:10.1117/12.2183693

16 July 2015 Time-domain diffuse optics: towards next generation devices

Davide Contini, Alberto Dalla Mora, Simon Arridge, Fabrizio Martelli, Alberto Tosi, Gianluca Boso, Andrea Farina, Turgut Durduran, Edoardo Martinenghi, Alessandro Torricelli, Antonio Pifferi

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Proceedings Volume 9538, Diffuse Optical Imaging V; 95380A (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2183693
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 2015, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Diffuse optics is a powerful tool for clinical applications ranging from oncology to neurology, but also for molecular imaging, and quality assessment of food, wood and pharmaceuticals. We show that ideally time-domain diffuse optics can give higher contrast and a higher penetration depth with respect to standard technology. In order to completely exploit the advantages of a time-domain system a distribution of sources and detectors with fast gating capabilities covering all the sample surface is needed. Here, we present the building block to build up such system. This basic component is made of a miniaturised source-detector pair embedded into the probe based on pulsed Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) as sources and Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) or Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) as detectors. The possibility to miniaturized and dramatically increase the number of source detectors pairs open the way to an advancement of diffuse optics in terms of improvement of performances and exploration of new applications. Furthermore, availability of compact devices with reduction in size and cost can boost the application of this technique.

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Davide Contini, Alberto Dalla Mora, Simon Arridge, Fabrizio Martelli, Alberto Tosi, Gianluca Boso, Andrea Farina, Turgut Durduran, Edoardo Martinenghi, Alessandro Torricelli, and Antonio Pifferi "Time-domain diffuse optics: towards next generation devices", Proc. SPIE 9538, Diffuse Optical Imaging V, 95380A (16 July 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2183693

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