Feasibility of spectra-based quantification algorithm for non-linear photoacoustic contrast agents

Liudmila Serebrennikova; Shang Gao; Ryo Murakami; Srikanth Boinapally; Martin G. Pomper; Sangeeta Ray; Haichong K. Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2650607

9 March 2023 Feasibility of spectra-based quantification algorithm for non-linear photoacoustic contrast agents

Liudmila Serebrennikova, Shang Gao, Ryo Murakami, Srikanth Boinapally, Martin G. Pomper, Sangeeta Ray, Haichong K. Zhang

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Proceedings Volume 12379, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2023; 1237909 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650607
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a technique that visualizes the optical absorption characteristics with ultrasound-like spatial resolution. It has been demonstrated that molecular targeted contrast agents (CAs) have great potential in applying to the early detection of tumor. These CAs attach to the tissues of the subject of interest, i.e., the cancerous cells, and emit PA signals based on the absorbed light. Precise quantification of the CA expression is desired to identify the degree of the malignancies. The current quantification of the CA expression is based on the strength of the PA intensity with the assumption of its linearity between them. However, the estimation accuracy of such a method is limited because the PA intensity is affected by many factors including the light, sound, and tissue interactions and the use of CAs that do not present linearity. Here, we investigate a robust quantification method by using the spectroscopic relationship between the dye concentration and its corresponding PA variation. We introduce a spectroscopic decomposition algorithm considering multiple reference spectra to accommodate the non-linear behavior of sample concentrations. The in vitro validation of the concept was performed using the synthesized PA CA possessing the non-linear property. The concentration of the samples was successfully estimated with the algorithm. The introduced method improved the quantification accuracy by reducing the averaging estimation error from 15.89 𝜇M to 1.80 𝜇M, compared with the conventional estimation.

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Liudmila Serebrennikova, Shang Gao, Ryo Murakami, Srikanth Boinapally, Martin G. Pomper, Sangeeta Ray, and Haichong K. Zhang "Feasibility of spectra-based quantification algorithm for non-linear photoacoustic contrast agents", Proc. SPIE 12379, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2023, 1237909 (9 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650607

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