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Ultrasound Assisted Optical Tomography: Estimation of phase Shift experienced by photon on transit through US insonified region for detection of breast tumor

Singh, Suheshkumar and Rajanna, K and Vasu, RM (2012) Ultrasound Assisted Optical Tomography: Estimation of phase Shift experienced by photon on transit through US insonified region for detection of breast tumor. In: Conference on Medical Imaging - Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy, FEB 05-06, 2012 , San Diego, CA, USA.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.910876

Abstract

A Monte Carlo model of ultrasound modulation of multiply scattered coherent light in a highly scattering media has been carried out for estimating the phase shift experienced by a photon beam on its transit through US insonified region. The phase shift is related to the tissue stiffness, thereby opening an avenue for possible breast tumor detection. When the scattering centers in the tissue medium is exposed to a deterministic forcing with the help of a focused ultrasound (US) beam, due to the fact that US-induced oscillation is almost along particular direction, the direction defined by the transducer axis, the scattering events increase, thereby increasing the phase shift experienced by light that traverses through the medium. The phase shift is found to increase with increase in anisotropy g of the medium. However, as the size of the focused region which is the region of interest (ROI) increases, a large number of scattering events take place within the ROI, the ensemble average of the phase shift (Delta phi) becomes very close to zero. The phase of the individual photon is randomly distributed over 2 pi when the scattered photon path crosses a large number of ultrasound wavelengths in the focused region. This is true at high ultrasound frequency (1 MHz) when mean free path length of photon l(s) is comparable to wavelength of US beam. However, at much lower US frequencies (100 Hz), the wavelength of sound is orders of magnitude larger than l(s), and with a high value of g (g 0.9), there is a distinct measurable phase difference for the photon that traverses through the insonified region. Experiments are carried out for validation of simulation results.

Item Type: Conference Proceedings
Series.: Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics
Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 02 Jul 2012 12:38
Last Modified: 02 Jul 2012 12:38
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/44780

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