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Blood Flow Imaging with Ultrafast Doppler
Published on: October 14, 2020
Photoacoustic Doppler measurement of flow using tone burst excitation
Adi Sheinfeld1, Sharon Gilead, Avishay Eyal
1School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel. adishein@post.tau.ac.il
Abstract:
In this paper a novel technique for flow measurement which is based on the photoacoustic (PA) Doppler effect is described. A significant feature of the proposed approach is that it can be implemented using tone burst optical excitation thus enabling simultaneous measurement of both velocity and position. The technique, which is based on external modulation and heterodyne detection, was experimentally demonstrated by measurement of the flow of a suspension of carbon particles in a silicon tube and successfully determined the particles mean velocity up to values of 130 mm/sec, which is about 10 times higher than previously reported PA Doppler set-ups. In the theoretical part a rigorous derivation of the PA response of a flowing medium is described and some important simplifying approximations are highlighted.
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