动物和人体的超宽场光声显微镜活体成像。
Super Wide-Field Photoacoustic Microscopy of Animals and Humans In Vivo.
出版信息
IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2020 Apr;39(4):975-984. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2019.2938518. Epub 2019 Aug 30.
Acoustic-resolution photoacoustic micro-scopy (AR-PAM) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality that combines superior optical sensitivity and fine ultrasonic resolution in an optical quasi-diffusive regime (~1-3 mm in tissues). AR-PAM has been explored for anatomical, functional, and molecular information in biological tissues. Heretofore, AR-PAM systems have suffered from a limited field-of-view (FOV) and/or slow imaging speed, which have precluded them from routine preclinical and clinical applications. Here, we demonstrate an advanced AR-PAM system that overcomes both limitations of previous AR-PAM systems. The new AR-PAM system demonstrates a super wide-field scanning that utilized a 1-axis water-proofing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) scanner integrated with two linear stepper motor stages. We achieved an extended FOV of 36 ×80 mm by mosaicking multiple volumetric images of 36 ×2.5 mm with a total acquisition time of 224 seconds. For one volumetric data (i.e., 36 ×2.5 mm), the B-scan imaging speed over the short axis (i.e., 2.5 mm) was 83 Hz in humans. The 3D volumetric image was also provided by using MEMS mirror scanning along the X-axis and stepper-motor scanning along the Y-axis. The super-wide FOV mosaic image was realized by registering and merging all individual volumetric images. Finally, we obtained multi-plane whole-body in-vivo PA images of small animals, illustrating distinct multi-layered structures including microvascular networks and internal organs. Importantly, we also visualized microvascular networks in human fingers, palm, and forearm successfully. This advanced MEMS-AR-PAM system could potentially enable hitherto not possible wide preclinical and clinical applications.
声分辨率光声显微镜(AR-PAM)是一种新兴的生物医学成像模式,它在光学准扩散区域(组织中约为 1-3 毫米)中结合了卓越的光学灵敏度和精细的超声分辨率。AR-PAM 已被用于生物组织中的解剖学、功能和分子信息的研究。迄今为止,AR-PAM 系统一直受到有限的视场(FOV)和/或缓慢的成像速度的限制,这使其无法常规应用于临床前和临床应用。在这里,我们展示了一种先进的 AR-PAM 系统,该系统克服了以前的 AR-PAM 系统的这两个限制。新的 AR-PAM 系统展示了一种超宽视场扫描,该扫描利用集成了两个线性步进电机台的 1 轴防水微机电系统(MEMS)扫描仪。我们通过拼接 36×2.5mm 的多个体积图像,实现了 36×80mm 的扩展 FOV,总采集时间为 224 秒。对于一个体积数据(即 36×2.5mm),短轴(即 2.5mm)的 B 扫描成像速度在人体中为 83Hz。通过 MEMS 镜沿 X 轴扫描和步进电机沿 Y 轴扫描,也提供了 3D 体积图像。通过注册和合并所有单个体积图像,实现了超宽 FOV 拼接图像。最后,我们获得了小动物的多平面全身体内 PA 图像,显示了包括微血管网络和内部器官在内的明显的多层结构。重要的是,我们还成功地可视化了人类手指、手掌和前臂的微血管网络。这种先进的 MEMS-AR-PAM 系统有可能实现以前不可能实现的广泛的临床前和临床应用。