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- the invention relates to a method, a record carrier, and an examination apparatus for the determination of an optical coefficient, particularly the optical absorption coefficient, at least one measuring location in an object.
- optical absorption and scattering properties of an object comprise valuable information about the material of the object and its chemical composition.
- biological tissue they allow for example to determine functional structures as well as pathophysiological states and regions.
- Several methods have therefore been proposed to measure the optical absorption coefficient (OAC) inside an object (cf. B.C. Wilson et. al., "Indirect versus direct techniques for the measurement of the optical properties of tissues", Photocem PhotobioL, 46, 601-608 (1987); A.A. Oraevsky et. el, "Measurement of tissue optical properties by time-resolved detection of laser-induced transient stress", Appl. Opt. 36, 402 (1997)).
- OAC optical absorption coefficient
- the examination apparatus serves for the determination of an optical coefficient, for example of the optical absorption coefficient (OAC) and/or the optical scattering coefficient, at at least one location in an object, wherein said location is called “measuring location” in the following.
- the apparatus comprises the following components:
- a light source for selectively sending a heating light beam to the measuring location wherein the term "heating” shall indicate that the light beam induces a temperature increase when it is absorbed by the object.
- the light source may particularly comprise a laser that allows to generate beams of definite spectral composition and intensity with minimal divergence.
- An ultrasonic scanner for measuring the pulse echoes of ultrasonic pulses which were sent to the measuring location.
- the ultrasonic scanner typically comprises an ultrasound (US) generator for generating US pulses and an US receiver for recording pulse echoes, i.e. the reflections of ultrasonic pulses from structures inside the object.
- the US generator and the US receiver are realized by one transducer operating sequentially as generator and receiver.
- the evaluation unit is typically realized by a microcomputer with dedicated hardware and/or software. It should be noted that the heating light beam may for example be followed by a period of no light emission during which the second pulse echoes are measured, or that it may for example be continued by a further light beam
- the examination apparatus allows to determine optical properties of a material with the help of an ultrasonic scanner, wherein the linkage between optical properties and ultrasonic measurement is the generation of heat due to the absorption of light.
- this mechanism comprises that the heating light beam will cause a temperature increase in the investigated object that is related to the optical properties of the material, particularly the OAC. This temperature increase will in turn induce changes in the speed of sound in the material which can be detected by the ultrasonic pulse echoes.
- An advantage of the apparatus resides in the fact that it uses a different physical quality, i.e. (ultra-)sound, that does not directly depend on the optical properties to be measured.
- the evaluation unit comprises a "temperature mapping module” for determining a spatial map of the temperature increase induced in the object by the heating light beam.
- a “spatial map” shall by definition refer to a mathematical mapping of a plurality of spatial locations to associated data (e.g. temperature values), wherein said spatial locations may particularly lie on a line or in a two-dimensional area.
- the spatial map comprises the complete path of the heating light beam inside the object.
- the evaluation unit comprises a "scatter mapping module” for estimating a map of the effective optical scattering properties in the object.
- the "effective optical scattering properties” typically summarize effects of absorption and scattering of light in the object and therefore determine how much of an incident light beam intensity will reach a target location inside the object.
- the scatter mapping module is preferably combined with the aforementioned temperature mapping module as the effective optical scattering properties can be inferred from the light-induced temperature increase (e.g. by comparing the temperature increases of adjacent locations with the same optical properties that are successively reached by the heating light beam).
- the evaluation unit comprises an "intensity estimation module” for determining the light intensity of the heating light beam at the measuring location.
- said module is further designed such that it allows to determine this intensity not only a one location, but everywhere on the path of the heating light beam through the object.
- the intensity estimation module is preferably combined with the aforementioned scatter mapping module, as the knowledge of the effective optical scattering properties on the path of the heating light beam can be used to derive the light intensity at each point. It should be noted that, once the light intensity and the temperature increase at the measuring location are known, the optical absorption coefficient there can readily be estimated.
- the light emitted by the light source may in principle have any spectral composition.
- the heating light beam emitted by the light source comprises however only light of a given spectral composition, for example monochromatic light that is more or less sharply centered around one particular wavelength. In this case it is possible to investigate the spectral dependency of the optical coefficient of interest and/or to focus on effects that are known to appear at specific wavelengths only.
- the heating light beam and the ultrasonic pulses may be radiated into the object in completely different, independent directions.
- the light source and the ultrasonic scanner are however arranged such that they have parallel emission directions, i.e. that the heating light beam and the ultrasonic pulses travel in the same direction.
- the measurements of the ultrasonic scanner will immediately reflect the conditions along the path of light propagation which simplifies the calculation of the optical coefficient of interest.
- the examination apparatus may further comprise an injection device for injecting a contrast agent with specific light absorbing properties into the object.
- the injection device may for example comprise a syringe with associated equipment for a definite delivery of contrast agent into the vessel system of a patient.
- the location of the contrast agent inside the object can then be determined due to its specific optical properties, which allows to identify anatomical structures and/or specific (pathological or healthy) tissue components.
- the invention further relates to a method for the determination of an optical coefficient at at least one measuring location in an object, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
- the method comprises in general form the steps that can be executed with an examination apparatus of the kind described above. Therefore, reference is made to the preceding description for more information on the details, advantages and improvements of that method.
- the optical coefficient of interest is determined at a plurality of locations inside the object, thus yielding a more or less densely sampled (one-, two- or three-dimensional) spatial map.
- a map of the temperature increase induced by the heating light beam inside the object is determined from the first and second pulse echoes. This temperature increase is directly proportional to the optical absorption coefficient and the light intensity at the considered location.
- the intensity of the heating light beam is determined at least at the measuring location from the map of temperature increase. Knowing the light intensity that reached the measuring location allows to infer the optical absorption coefficient from the measured temperature increase.
- the determination of the light intensity at the measuring location may particularly comprise the determination of the effective optical scattering properties on the path of the heating light beam, which can in turn be deduced from a comparison of the temperature increases in small regions with approximately constant optical properties.
- the invention comprises a record carrier, for example a floppy disk, a hard disk, or a compact disc (CD), on which a computer program for the determination of an optical coefficient at at least one measuring location in an object is stored, wherein said program is adapted to execute a method of the aforementioned kind.
- a record carrier for example a floppy disk, a hard disk, or a compact disc (CD)
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- Figure 1 shows a principle sketch of an examination apparatus according to the present invention comprising a laser light source, an ultrasonic scanner, and an evaluation unit;
- Figure 2 summarizes mathematical expressions relating to the measurement principle;
- Figure 3 is a flow diagram of a typical examination procedure for the determination of the optical absorption coefficient in an object
- Figure 4 shows an exemplary pulse-echo waveform in an overview (top left) and in three enlarged windows;
- Figure 5 shows the phase-shift in dependence on the depth inside an object determined from the data of Figure 4.
- OAC optical absorption coefficients
- the OAC of pathological regions can also have an enhanced contrast with respect to the background OAC by using those compounds, enabling imaging in depth. For these reasons, a reliable and feasible method for the measurement of the OAC in an object is highly desirable.
- a typical limit is 20 mJ/cm 2 per pulse (for ultra-short lasers) or 0.2 W/cm 2 for continuous wave (CW) at 532 nm laser wavelength, for instance, and it increases in the infrared wavelength regime reaching 40 mJ/cm 2 (per pulse) or 0.4 W/cm 2 (CW) at 1064 nm. It should however be noted that the safe use of significantly higher intensities (e.g. two orders of magnitude higher) has been demonstrated for certain applications. The aforementioned figures shall therefore not exclude the use of higher intensities in connection with the present invention.
- the aforementioned (allowed) levels of light energy result in a heat deposition of typically a fraction of a Joule per cm 3 , and a temperature increase of a fraction of one Kelvin to a few Kelvin in an investigated tissue.
- the heat then gradually diffuses from the laser-absorbing thermal sources to the surrounding tissue.
- this light-induced temperature increase it is known that the speed of sound, v, in biological tissue (with high water content) increases with temperature for temperature rises ⁇ T on the order of 10-15 K above normal body temperature (37 0 C).
- PEU pulse-echo ultrasound
- Figure 1 shows a principle sketch of an examination apparatus that realizes the proposed approach.
- the apparatus is used to investigate the optical properties of an object 1 , for example a tissue region under the skin of a patient, wherein an x,y-coordinate system has been drawn for purposes of reference.
- an object 1 for example a tissue region under the skin of a patient
- an x,y-coordinate system has been drawn for purposes of reference.
- the examination apparatus comprises the following components: - A laser light source 10 for illuminating the object 1 with a heating light beam 11 propagating along the x-direction.
- An ultrasonic scanner 20 that emits ultrasonic pulses along a z- direction that can, in the most general case, be diagonal with respect to the x,y-coordinate system and in particular with respect to the direction of light propagation.
- the US scanner 20 typically comprises an US transducer that first emits an ultrasonic pulse and then records the echoes of this pulse which return from the object after characteristic traveling times ( Figure 4 shows an exemplary pulse-echo waveform recorded by such an ultrasonic scanner).
- An evaluation unit 30, for example a workstation, to which the ultrasonic scanner 20 and optionally also the laser light source 10 are coupled.
- the evaluation unit 30 comprises several modules 31-34 which may be realized by dedicated hardware or, preferably, by suited routines of a computer program.
- a display unit 40 for example a computer monitor, for showing measurement results like a map of the determined optical absorption coefficient OAC.
- the intensity I(x, y) of a heating light beam at some depth x within a tissue relates to the incidence intensity I 0 at the incidence surface as expressed in equation (2), where it is assumed that the complete spatio-temporal intensity I*(x, y, t) is a product of a spatial and temporal function and wherein a plane wave configuration is assumed for the spatial part.
- the effective scattering coefficient ⁇ eff is defined as in equation (3), wherein ⁇ a , ⁇ s and g are absorption, scattering and anisotropy coefficients, respectively, which are in equation (2) assumed to be constant. For a real tissue they vary spatially and depend on the light illumination wavelength.
- the temporal dependence f(t) of the light illumination can be assumed to be instantaneous if the light pulses are temporally much shorter than the temperature diffusion speed. Another extreme is continuous wave illumination, when the diffusion processes after some transition time stabilize and the configuration is in a steady state.
- the temperature distribution T(r, t) resulting from these heat sources can be derived from the bioheat equation (6), where p is the density, c the specific heat, k the heat conductivity, q laser the light absorption term and q pm a term that contains effects from perfusion and metabolic activity. For short time scales, the last term q pm does not play an important role and can be neglected. Solving this equation for the case of a single spherical absorbing particle positioned within a non-absorbing tissue gives the temperature distribution of equation (7), assuming that the time t is large enough so that there is an ongoing heat diffusion process.
- the heat transfer equation (6) can be simplified to equation (8), in which tiaser represents the time the laser was on and ⁇ T represents the induced temperature rise.
- tiaser represents the time the laser was on
- ⁇ T represents the induced temperature rise.
- the pulse echo provides the tissue geometry and structure.
- the tissue geometry/structure and its temperature rise map ⁇ T(r) are further sufficient to create an optical absorption and scattering map.
- the effective scattering coefficient ⁇ eff that appears in equation (2) can be derived from the measured temperature increases ⁇ T( ⁇ A ), ⁇ T( ⁇ B ) and the measured distance (X B -X A ). Repeating this procedure for the whole object yields a map ⁇ eff(r) of effective scattering coefficients.
- the intensity I(r) of a heating light beam that arrives at a location r can be determined by integration of a generalized equation (2) with the help of the now known effective scattering coefficients ⁇ e ff(r).
- FIG. 3 shows the flow diagram of a typical measurement procedure with the examination apparatus of Figure 1 based on the principles explained above.
- the procedure starts at step 101 with an optional injection of a photoactive substance as a contrast agent into the body volume of interest.
- the contrast agent may particularly be targeting some specific tissue inside a patient. Examples of possible contrast agents are indocyanine green (ICG) and nanoparticles.
- a first pulse-echo signal is recorded with the ultrasonic scanner 20, from which a body structure image can optionally be determined in step 105.
- the object After recording of the first pulse echoes, the object is illuminated with a heating laser light beam of initial intensity I 0 for the pulse duration t laser in step 103.
- the heating light beam will induce an associated temperature increase ⁇ T in the illuminated regions of the object.
- a second image of pulse echoes is recorded with the ultrasonic scanner 20 in step 104. This image is preferably generated with the same imaging parameters (position of scanner, frequency, viewing angle etc.) as the first pulse-echo image of step 102.
- step 106 The temperature-induced strain du/dz that is found in the second pulse- echo image with respect to the first pulse-echo image is evaluated in step 106 according to equation (12) to derive the local temperature increases ⁇ T(r).
- This step 106 is performed in a "temperature mapping module” 31 of the evaluation unit 30 shown in Figure 1.
- the temperature map ⁇ T(r) and optionally also the structural image obtained at step 105 is used to determine a map ⁇ e ff(r) of effective scattering coefficients according to equation (13).
- step 107 is performed in a "scatter mapping module" 32 of the evaluation unit 30.
- the light intensity distribution I(r) throughout the object can be determined in step 108 based on the given initial light intensity I 0 and the direction of the heating light beam according to equation (2).
- This step 108 is performed in an "intensity mapping module" 33 of the evaluation unit 30.
- the desired map ⁇ a (r) of the OAC is determined with the help of equation (8) from the intensity I(r) and the temperature increase ⁇ T(r) previously obtained.
- This step is performed in an "OAC mapping module" 34 of the evaluation unit 30.
- other optical coefficients like the scattering coefficient ⁇ s could be determined as well.
- the described method for acquiring optical absorption coefficients from ultrasonic pulse-echo images comprises the following basic steps: 1) An ultrasonic pulse-echo image is acquired before and shortly after the light illumination exposure, wherein one pulse-echo line before and after illumination can be sufficient for obtaining the OACs along the line. 2) The temperature change is identified in at least two spatially separated points which belong to a tissue section sharing the same OAC. 3) The optical absorption coefficient is obtained from the temperature change ratio between the aforementioned points and their separation, combined with at least one of the temperature changes and its depth information. The minimum required separation of the relevant points is only determined by the temperature acquiring process resolution.
- Figure 4 shows exemplary pulse-echo waveforms obtained from an ink doped agar gel phantom of block- shape immersed into water (vertical axis: relative units; horizontal axis: pulse traveling time t).
- the ink was uniformly dispersed during the phantom fabrication process.
- Pulsed, nanosecond Nd: YAG, laser was shined from a side of the phantom, providing uniform illumination along the ultrasonic pulse-echo acquisition line as the US transducer was aligned along an edge of the phantom perpendicular to the light direction (corresponding to an axis z perpendicular to the x- axis in Figure 1).
- the after illumination signal has a phase (time) shift (corresponding to the apparent displacement u considered above). Since the phase shift is cumulative, the after the illumination signal overlaps the before the illumination signal in the window 1 (graph 1), and gradually separates from it at larger depths (windows 2 and 3). The laser illumination is uniform along the phantom surface, resulting in a uniform temperature change. Therefore the phase shift increases/decreases linearly.
- Figure 5 shows in this respect a nearly linear drop in phase shift ⁇ (vertical axis) along the length of the phantom (horizontal axis, measured by the pulse traveling time t).
- ⁇ vertical axis
- t the pulse traveling time
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