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  • Biomedical Optics
  • Computational Imaging
  • Medical Physics

Background:

  • Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is crucial for functional brain imaging but computationally intensive.
  • The forward problem (light propagation modeling) is a significant bottleneck, hindering real-time clinical applications.
  • Current methods lack the speed required for dynamic physiological monitoring in large, complex volumes like the human brain.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To accelerate the forward model in DOT using parallelized finite-element modeling (FEM).
  • To enable real-time computation of light propagation in realistic adult head models.
  • To improve the clinical applicability of DOT for brain functional imaging.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a parallelized FEM framework for light propagation modeling based on diffusion approximation.
  • Employed GPU architectures to expedite calculations for continuous wave (CW) and frequency-domain (FD) DOT systems.
  • Utilized high-resolution, heterogeneous adult head models with approximately 600,000 nodes.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a 10-fold increase in computational speed using GPU acceleration.
  • Maintained high accuracy in light propagation calculations.
  • Demonstrated calculation of light propagation at approximately 0.25 seconds per excitation source for a detailed head model.

Conclusions:

  • Parallelized FEM on GPUs significantly accelerates DOT forward modeling.
  • The developed methodology enables near real-time performance for complex human head models.
  • This advancement is expected to facilitate practical and clinical applications of DOT in neuroimaging.