Fatima Afreen, Kratkiewicz Karl, Manwar Rayyan, Zafar Mohsin, Zhang Ruiying, Huang Bin, Dadashzadeh Neda, Xia Jun, Avanaki Kamran Mohammad
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Photoacoustics. 2019 Jul 26;15:100137. doi: 10.1016/j.pacs.2019.100137. eCollection 2019 Sep.
Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) is a major configuration of photoacoustic imaging, a hybrid noninvasive modality for both functional and molecular imaging. PACT has rapidly gained importance in the field of biomedical imaging due to superior performance as compared to conventional optical imaging counterparts. However, the overall cost of developing a PACT system is one of the challenges towards clinical translation of this novel technique. The cost of a typical commercial PACT system originates from optical source, ultrasound detector, and data acquisition unit. With growing applications of photoacoustic imaging, there is a tremendous demand towards reducing its cost. In this review article, we have discussed various approaches to reduce the overall cost of a PACT system, and provided a cost estimation to build a low-cost PACT system.
光声计算机断层扫描(PACT)是光声成像的一种主要形式,是一种用于功能成像和分子成像的混合无创成像方式。与传统光学成像相比,PACT因其卓越的性能在生物医学成像领域迅速变得重要起来。然而,开发一个PACT系统的总体成本是这项新技术临床转化面临的挑战之一。典型商用PACT系统的成本源自光源、超声探测器和数据采集单元。随着光声成像应用的不断增加,降低其成本的需求极为迫切。在这篇综述文章中,我们讨论了降低PACT系统总体成本的各种方法,并给出了构建低成本PACT系统的成本估算。