Quantitative inversion of 3D multiwavelength photoacoustic images using an adjoint radiance Monte Carlo model (Conference Presentation)

Jens Buchmann; Bernhard Kaplan; Samuel Powell; Steffen Prohaska; Jan Laufer

doi:10.1117/12.2509797

4 March 2019 Quantitative inversion of 3D multiwavelength photoacoustic images using an adjoint radiance Monte Carlo model (Conference Presentation)

Jens Buchmann, Bernhard Kaplan, Samuel Powell, Steffen Prohaska, Jan Laufer

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Proceedings Volume 10878, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2019; 108781J (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2509797
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Quantitative photoacoustic (PA) tomography aims to recover absolute chromophore concentrations from multiwavelength PA images. Challenges include the accurate prediction of the fluence, the accuracy of the initial pressure distribution reconstructed from measured data, and the large scale of the inverse problem involving high resolution 3D images. In this study, a radiance Monte-Carlo (RMC) light model was used to predict the fluence inside tissue phantoms. Gradients of the scattering coefficient and the chromophore concentrations were calculated using the adjoint formalism. The gradient descent efficiency was significantly improved by using adaptive moment estimation. 3D maps of chromophore concentrations and the scattering coefficient were recovered from measured PA images. The inversion scheme was validated on measured images of a tissue phantom consisting of a scattering liquid and chromophore-filled polymer tubes immersed at different depths. The images were acquired at visible and near-infrared wavelengths using a Fabry-Perot scanner with a planar detection geometry. Amplitude mismatches in the reconstructed initial pressure images due to limited view detection were corrected using an ad hoc correction method. The inversion was stabilized by introducing a calibrated absorber in the imaged volume, or an absolute calibration of the setup. 3D maps of absolute chromophore concentrations, their ratios, and the global scattering coefficient were accurately recovered. The recovery of chromophore concentrations in the image background where SNR is low was identified as a significant new challenge for quantitative PA imaging.

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Jens Buchmann, Bernhard Kaplan, Samuel Powell, Steffen Prohaska, and Jan Laufer "Quantitative inversion of 3D multiwavelength photoacoustic images using an adjoint radiance Monte Carlo model (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10878, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2019, 108781J (4 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2509797

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3D modeling

3D image processing

Chromophores

Photoacoustic spectroscopy

Monte Carlo methods

Scattering

Calibration

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