An extended series of transillumination experiments has been performed in vitro on animal samples (bovine muscle, up to 30- mm-thick; chicken wing and quail femur, 12-mm-thick) and in vivo on the human hand (thickness, about 20 mm), using a pulsed light source (7 ns, about 10-4 J/pulse, 10 Hz rep rate) from a collimated (1.2 m) Nd:YAG laser beam (1064 nm). A PIN photodiode connected to a digital oscilloscope was used to measure the maximum intensity of the beam pulse transmitted through the sample (i.e., no temporal discrimination of the output signal was attempted) while it was scanned across the source/detector assembly. One dimensional scans were performed on bovine muscle samples in which thin metallic test objects were embedded, in order to study the spatial resolution of the technique (for bovine muscle at 1064 nm, absorption and reduced scattering coefficients are reported to be about 1 cm-1 and 3 cm-1, respectively). The measured spatial resolution was as good as 3.6 mm in 30 mm of tissue thickness. In the two-dimensional scans of the chicken and quail sample, fat and bone tissues can be easily seen with good resolution, whereas imaging of the middle finger of a human hand shows cartilaginoid and bone tissue with 1 - 2 mm resolution. Hence, this simple collimated quasi-cw technique gives significantly better results for tissue imaging than pure cw transillumination. Use of (pulsed) light above 1000 nm and a high energy content per pulse are supposed to explain the positive experimental findings.
Quasi-CW tissue transillumination at 1064 nm / Bernini, U.; Ramaglia, A.; Russo, P.. - 2979:(1997), pp. 688-696. (Intervento presentato al convegno Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue: Theory, Instrumentation, Model, and Human Studies II tenutosi a San Jose, CA, USA nel 8-14 FEBRUARY 1997) [10.1117/12.280305].
Quasi-CW tissue transillumination at 1064 nm
Ramaglia, A.;Russo, P.
1997
Abstract
An extended series of transillumination experiments has been performed in vitro on animal samples (bovine muscle, up to 30- mm-thick; chicken wing and quail femur, 12-mm-thick) and in vivo on the human hand (thickness, about 20 mm), using a pulsed light source (7 ns, about 10-4 J/pulse, 10 Hz rep rate) from a collimated (1.2 m) Nd:YAG laser beam (1064 nm). A PIN photodiode connected to a digital oscilloscope was used to measure the maximum intensity of the beam pulse transmitted through the sample (i.e., no temporal discrimination of the output signal was attempted) while it was scanned across the source/detector assembly. One dimensional scans were performed on bovine muscle samples in which thin metallic test objects were embedded, in order to study the spatial resolution of the technique (for bovine muscle at 1064 nm, absorption and reduced scattering coefficients are reported to be about 1 cm-1 and 3 cm-1, respectively). The measured spatial resolution was as good as 3.6 mm in 30 mm of tissue thickness. In the two-dimensional scans of the chicken and quail sample, fat and bone tissues can be easily seen with good resolution, whereas imaging of the middle finger of a human hand shows cartilaginoid and bone tissue with 1 - 2 mm resolution. Hence, this simple collimated quasi-cw technique gives significantly better results for tissue imaging than pure cw transillumination. Use of (pulsed) light above 1000 nm and a high energy content per pulse are supposed to explain the positive experimental findings.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
