Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
J Biophotonics. 2020 Oct;13(10):e202000212. doi: 10.1002/jbio.202000212. Epub 2020 Aug 17.
One of the key limitations for the clinical translation of photoacoustic imaging is penetration depth that is linked to the tissue maximum permissible exposures (MPE) recommended by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Here, we propose a method based on deep learning to virtually increase the MPE in order to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of deep structures in the brain tissue. The proposed method is evaluated in an in vivo sheep brain imaging experiment. We believe this method can facilitate clinical translation of photoacoustic technique in brain imaging, especially in transfontanelle brain imaging in neonates.
光声成象临床转化的主要限制之一是穿透深度,这与美国国家标准协会(ANSI)推荐的组织最大允许暴露量(MPE)有关。在此,我们提出了一种基于深度学习的方法,以虚拟增加 MPE,从而提高脑组织深部结构的信噪比。该方法在体内绵羊脑成像实验中进行了评估。我们相信这种方法可以促进光声技术在脑成像中的临床转化,特别是在新生儿经前囟脑成像中。