Rayyan Manwar, Xin Li, Karl Kratkiewicz, Dongxiao Zhu, Kamran Avanaki

Adaptive coherent weighted averaging algorithm for enhancement of photoacoustic tomography images of brain

  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • General Engineering
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Materials Science
  • General Chemistry

AbstractOne common method to improve the low signal‐to‐noise ratio of the photoacoustic (PA) signal generated from weak absorbers or absorbers located in deep tissue is to acquire signal multiple times from the same region and perform averaging. However, pulse‐to‐pulse laser fluctuations together with differences in the beam profile of the pulses create undeterministic multiple scattering processes in the tissue. This phenomenon consequently induces a spatiotemporal displacement in the PA signal samples which in turn deteriorates the effectiveness of signal averaging. Here, we present an adaptive coherent weighted averaging algorithm to adjust the locations and values of PA signal samples for more efficient signal averaging. The proposed method is evaluated in a linear array‐based PA imaging setup of ex vivo sheep brain.

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