Abstract：
:A non-contact approach for diffuse optical tomography (DOT) has been developed for on-demand image updates using surgical navigation technology. A stereoscopic optical tracker provides real-time localization of reflective spheres mounted to a laser diode and near-infrared camera. Standard camera calibration is combined with tracking data to determine the intrinsic camera parameters (focal length, principal point and non-linear lens distortion) and the tracker-to-camera transform. Tracker-to-laser calibration is performed using images of laser beam intersection with a tracked calibration surface. Source and detector positions for a finite-element DOT implementation are projected onto the boundary elements of the tissue mesh by finding ray-triangle intersections. A multi-stage model converts camera counts to surface flux by accounting for lens aperture settings, fluorescence filter transmittance, photodetector quantum efficiency, photon energy, exposure time, readout offset and camera gain. The image-guidance framework was applied to an in-house optical tomography system configured for indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence. Mean target registration errors for camera and laser calibration were less than 1 mm. Surface flux measurements of total reflectance and fluorescence in Intralipid-based fluorescence phantoms (0-2 μg ml-1) had mean errors of 3.1% and 4.4%, respectively, relative to diffusion theory predictions. Spatially-resolved reflectance measurements in a calibrated optical phantom agreed with theory for radial distances up to 25 mm from the laser source. Inverse fluorescence reconstructions of a sub-surface fluorescence target confirmed the localization accuracy (average target centroid error of 0.44 mm). This translational research system is under investigation for clinical applications in head and neck surgery, including oral cavity tumor resection, lymph node mapping and free-flap perforator assessment.
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Phys Med Bioljournal_title
Physics in medicine and biologyauthors
Daly MJ,Wilson BC,Irish JC,Jaffray DAdoi
10.1088/1361-6560/ab1f33subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-07-05 00:00:00pages
135021issue
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0031-9155issn
1361-6560journal_volume
64pub_type
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