Phantom Preparation and Optical Property Determination
Tóm tắt
Tissue-like optical phantoms are important in testing new imaging algorithms. Homogeneous optical phantoms with determined optical properties are the first step of making a proper heterogeneous phantom for multi-modality imaging. Typical recipes for such phantoms consist of epoxy resin, hardener, India ink and titanium oxide. By altering the concentration of India ink and titanium oxide, we are able to get multiple homogeneous phantoms with different absorption and scattering coefficients by carefully mixing all the ingredients. After fabricating the phantoms, we need to find their individual optical properties including the absorption and scattering coefficients. This is achieved by solving diffusion equation of each phantom as a homogeneous slab under canonical illumination. We solve the diffusion equation of homogeneous slab in frequency domain and get the formula for theoretical measurements. Under our steady-state diffused optical tomography (DOT) imaging system, we are able to obtain the real distribution of the incident light produced by a laser. With this source distribution we got and the formula we derived, numerical experiments show how measurements change while varying the value of absorption and scattering coefficients. Then we notice that the measurements alone will not be enough for us to get unique optical properties for steady-state DOT problem. Thus in order to determine the optical properties of a homogeneous slab we want to fix one of the coefficients first and use optimization methods to find another one. Then by assemble multiple homogeneous slab phantoms with different optical properties, we are able to obtain a heterogeneous phantom suitable for testing multi-modality imaging algorithms. In this paper, we describe how to make phantoms, derive a formula to solve the diffusion equation, demonstrate the non-uniqueness of steady-state DOT problem by analysing some numerical results of our formula, and finally propose a possible way to determine optical properties for homogeneous slab for our future work.
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