Negativity artifacts analysis in back-projection based photoacoustic tomography

Kang Shen; Songde Liu; Chao Tian

doi:10.1117/12.2575110

10 October 2020 Negativity artifacts analysis in back-projection based photoacoustic tomography

Kang Shen, Songde Liu, Chao Tian

Proceedings Volume 11553, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics X; 115532K (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2575110
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2020, Online Only

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Abstract

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a fast-evolving biomedical imaging modality in recent years, which has unique applications in a range of biomedical fields. In PAT, image reconstruction is a critical step to produce high-quality optical absorption images from photoacoustic projections. To date, algorithms based on back projection are the most widely used image reconstruction techniques due to their simplicity and computational efficiency. However, images reconstructed by back projection contain negative intensities, which have no physical meanings and are essentially undesired artifacts. Here we study the formation mechanism, fundamental causes of the negativity artifacts in backprojection based PAT. Results show that limited detector bandwidth and limited view angle are two fundamental causes of the negativity artifacts. When the bandwidth of the detector is limited, back-projection signals will be distorted due to the loss of frequency contents and negativity artifacts thus occur. When the view angle of the detector is limited, photoacoustic signals propagating in three-dimensional space cannot be captured completely, resulting in negativity artifacts. This work provides a comprehensive understanding of the characteristics of negativity artifacts, which may promote the development of artifact-free image reconstruction algorithms.

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Kang Shen, Songde Liu, and Chao Tian "Negativity artifacts analysis in back-projection based photoacoustic tomography", Proc. SPIE 11553, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics X, 115532K (10 October 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2575110

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