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    • Medical Imaging
    • Biophysics

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    • Accurate mechanical characterization of soft tissues is crucial for disease diagnosis.
    • Existing imaging techniques have limitations in depth penetration and resolution for mechanical property mapping.

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    • To introduce and validate optical palpation, a new tactile imaging method.
    • To demonstrate the capability of optical palpation for subsurface mechanical property assessment and in-situ tissue analysis.

    Main Methods:

    • Optical palpation employs a compliant silicone stress sensor with known mechanical properties.
    • Optical coherence tomography (OCT) measures local strain within the sensor under applied load.
    • Local stress and mechanical variations are calculated and visualized as a tactile image.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully detected an embedded feature 4.7 mm below the surface in tissue phantoms, exceeding OCT's typical depth range.
    • Demonstrated accurate delineation of a tumor region in human breast tissue.
    • Results were validated against histopathology, confirming the technique's diagnostic potential.

    Conclusions:

    • Optical palpation provides a non-invasive method for high-resolution mechanical mapping of soft tissues.
    • The technique offers significant potential for improving subsurface feature detection and disease characterization, particularly in oncology.
    • Optical palpation extends the capabilities of OCT for mechanical assessment beyond its direct imaging depth.