Optimization of frequency domain measurement technique and development of a clinical prototype optical tomography system

Author

Stanley, W. ; van der Zee, P. ; Khalaf, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. Sci., Hertfordshire Univ., Hatfield, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

504

Lastpage

505

Abstract

Summary form only given. In order to attempt a clinical evaluation of an optical tomography (OT) system, the scanning time must be kept low. Two aspects of reducing scanning time are looked at in the work. The first aspect is based on experimentation using an existing system built around a ´rotate rotate´ geometry. The aim is to optimize this Mark I system in respect of the number of frequency domain measurements required in order to obtain a reasonably resolved two-dimensional (2D) image. A compromise has to be made between image quality and scanning time plus computation time spent on reconstruction. The second aspect is developing a faster Mark II OT system based on multiplexed fibre couplings between source tissue and detector.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical imaging; frequency-domain analysis; image reconstruction; medical image processing; optical fibre couplers; optical tomography; optimisation; Mark I system; Mark II system; clinical evaluation; clinical prototype optical tomography system; computation time; detector; frequency domain measurement technique; image quality; multiplexed fibre couplings; optical tomography system; optimization; reconstruction; rotate rotate geometry; scanning time; source tissue; two-dimensional image; Frequency domain analysis; Light sources; Measurement techniques; Optical films; Optimized production technology; Prototypes; Tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.907314

Filename

907314