I experimentally studied ultrasound-modulated optical tomography, which holds the promise for biomedical diagnosis. I measured the degree of polarization of laser speckles generated by scattered light transmitted through turbid media, investigated three signal-detection schemes for extracting the intensity of the ultrasound-modulated light, carried out experiments to image thick biological-tissue samples, and studied two techniques providing resolution in the cross-sections containing the ultrasonic axis.
The study of degree of polarization presented results important for the understanding of polarization phenomena in turbid media. I explored an optical-filtering based signal detection scheme, improved the parallel-lock-in speckle detection scheme and proposed a speckle-contrast detection scheme. With the speckle-contrast detection scheme, I successfully obtained images of biological-tissue samples up to 50 mm thick. Further I studied frequency-swept ultrasound-modulated optical tomography for sub-millimeter resolution imaging, and developed ultrasound-modulated optical computed tomography that was based on a back-projection image reconstruction method and obtained clear images of biological-tissue samples.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/1274 |
| Date | 15 November 2004 |
| Creators | Li, Jun |
| Contributors | Wang, Lihong V. |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 907678 bytes, 158110 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, text/plain, born digital |
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