Lin Yao1, Huakun Li1, Kaiyuan Liu1, Ziyi Zhang1, Peng Li1,2,3,4. 1. State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 2. Jiaxing Key Laboratory of Photonic Sensing & Intelligent Imaging, Jiaxing, China. 3. Intelligent Optics & Photonics Research Center, Jiaxing Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Jiaxing, China. 4. Hebei Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Precision Optical Sensing and Measurement Technology, Qinhuangdao, China.
Abstract
Background: Angiogenesis is closely associated with tumor development and progression. Endoscopic optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) enables rapid inspection of mucosal 3D vasculature of inner organs in the early-stage tumor diagnosis; however, it is limited by instabilities of the optical signal and beam scanning. Methods: In the phase-unstable swept source OCTA (SS-OCTA), amplitude decorrelation was used to compute the motion-induced changes as motion contrast. The influence of the random noise-induced amplitude fluctuations on decorrelation was characterized as a function of inverse signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with a multi-variate time series (MVTS) model and statistical analysis. Then, the noise-induced decorrelation artifacts in static tissue regions were eliminated by applying a flow mask based on the statistical relation between inverse SNR (iSNR) and amplitude decorrelation (IDa), which was named IDa-OCTA. In addition, a distal stepwise raster scan was realized with a low-voltage electrothermal micro-electro-mechanical system (ET-MEMS)-based catheter for endoscopic imaging, whereby the stable and repeatable B-scans at each step suppressed the decorrelation noise induced by the spatial mismatch between paired scans. Results: The derived IDa relation was validated through numerical simulation and flow phantom experiments. In vivo human buccal mucosa imaging was performed to demonstrate the endoscopic IDa-OCTA imaging. In this, the subsurface structure and vasculature were visualized in a rapid and depth-resolved manner. Conclusions: The rapid 3D vasculature visualization realized by the endoscopic IDa-OCTA improves the diagnosis of early tumors in internal organs. 2022 Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved.
Background: Angiogenesis is closely associated with tumor development and progression. Endoscopic optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) enables rapid inspection of mucosal 3D vasculature of inner organs in the early-stage tumor diagnosis; however, it is limited by instabilities of the optical signal and beam scanning. Methods: In the phase-unstable swept source OCTA (SS-OCTA), amplitude decorrelation was used to compute the motion-induced changes as motion contrast. The influence of the random noise-induced amplitude fluctuations on decorrelation was characterized as a function of inverse signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with a multi-variate time series (MVTS) model and statistical analysis. Then, the noise-induced decorrelation artifacts in static tissue regions were eliminated by applying a flow mask based on the statistical relation between inverse SNR (iSNR) and amplitude decorrelation (IDa), which was named IDa-OCTA. In addition, a distal stepwise raster scan was realized with a low-voltage electrothermal micro-electro-mechanical system (ET-MEMS)-based catheter for endoscopic imaging, whereby the stable and repeatable B-scans at each step suppressed the decorrelation noise induced by the spatial mismatch between paired scans. Results: The derived IDa relation was validated through numerical simulation and flow phantom experiments. In vivo human buccal mucosa imaging was performed to demonstrate the endoscopic IDa-OCTA imaging. In this, the subsurface structure and vasculature were visualized in a rapid and depth-resolved manner. Conclusions: The rapid 3D vasculature visualization realized by the endoscopic IDa-OCTA improves the diagnosis of early tumors in internal organs. 2022 Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved.
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