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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Optics
  • Medical Imaging
  • Biophysics

Background:

  • Traditional compression optical coherence elastography (OCE) requires mechanical actuators, increasing probe complexity and limiting strain application.
  • Handheld OCE systems face design challenges due to actuator size and stroke limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a compact, actuator-free handheld compression OCE system using manual compression.
  • To enable rapid volumetric quantitative microelastography (QME) imaging of biological tissues.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized bidirectional manual compression via natural hand motion to induce sample strain.
  • Developed a handheld probe for volumetric QME acquisition.
  • Acquired 3D QME datasets of tissue volumes (6 × 6 × 1 mm³) in 3.4 seconds.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated comparable elasticity sensitivity to benchtop actuator-based OCE using a homogeneous phantom.
  • Successfully imaged tissue-mimicking phantoms with inclusions and excised human breast tissues.
  • Co-registered QME results with histology, confirming accurate elasticity measurement and tumor differentiation.

Conclusions:

  • Manual compression enables compact, actuator-free handheld OCE.
  • Rapid volumetric QME is feasible with this approach.
  • This technique can effectively measure tissue elasticity and differentiate tumors from surrounding tissue.