Photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging of cancellous bone tissue

Lifeng Yang; Bahman Lashkari; Joel W. Y. Tan; Andreas Mandelis

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.20.7.076016

29 July 2015 Photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging of cancellous bone tissue

Lifeng Yang, Bahman Lashkari, Joel W. Y. Tan, Andreas Mandelis

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 20, Issue 7, 076016 (July 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.20.7.076016

Abstract

We used ultrasound (US) and photoacoustic (PA) imaging modalities to characterize cattle trabecular bones. The PA signals were generated with an 805-nm continuous wave laser used for optimally deep optical penetration depth. The detector for both modalities was a 2.25-MHz US transducer with a lateral resolution of ∼1 mm at its focal point. Using a lateral pixel size much larger than the size of the trabeculae, raster scanning generated PA images related to the averaged values of the optical and thermoelastic properties, as well as density measurements in the focal volume. US backscatter yielded images related to mechanical properties and density in the focal volume. The depth of interest was selected by time-gating the signals for both modalities. The raster scanned PA and US images were compared with microcomputed tomography (μCT) images averaged over the same volume to generate similar spatial resolution as US and PA. The comparison revealed correlations between PA and US modalities with the mineral volume fraction of the bone tissue. Various features and properties of these modalities such as detectable depth, resolution, and sensitivity are discussed.

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Lifeng Yang, Bahman Lashkari, Joel W. Y. Tan, and Andreas Mandelis "Photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging of cancellous bone tissue," Journal of Biomedical Optics 20(7), 076016 (29 July 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.20.7.076016

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KEYWORDS

Bone

Computed tomography

Ultrasonography

Backscatter

Photoacoustic spectroscopy

Tissue optics

Minerals

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