Watt, Fraser T;
Mackle, Eleanor C;
Zhang, Edward Z;
Beard, Paul C;
Alles, Erwin J;
(2024)
Towards clinical application of freehand optical ultrasound imaging.
Scientific Reports
, 14
, Article 18779. 10.1038/s41598-024-69826-1.
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Abstract
Freehand optical ultrasound (OpUS) imaging is an emerging ultrasound imaging paradigm that uses an array of fibre-optic, photoacoustic ultrasound sources and a single fibre-optic ultrasound detector to perform ultrasound imaging without the need for electrical components in the probe head. Previous freehand OpUS devices have demonstrated capability for real-time, video-rate imaging of clinically relevant targets, but have been hampered by poor ultrasound penetration, significant imaging artefacts and low frame rates, and their designs limited their clinical applicability. In this work we present a novel freehand OpUS imaging platform, including a fully mobile and compact acquisition console and an improved probe design. The novel freehand OpUS probe presented utilises optical waveguides to shape the generated ultrasound fields for improved ultrasound penetration depths, an extended fibre-optic bundle to improve system versatility and an overall ruggedised design with protective elements to improve probe handling and protect the internal optical components. This probe is demonstrated with phantoms and the first multi-participant in vivo imaging study conducted with freehand OpUS imaging probes, this represents several significant steps towards the clinical translation of freehand OpUS imaging.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Towards clinical application of freehand optical ultrasound imaging |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-024-69826-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69826-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195765 |
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