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  • Biomedical Imaging
  • Optical Physics
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Optical elastography is a developing imaging technique for visualizing mechanical properties of tissues.
  • Existing methods can be complex and costly, limiting widespread adoption.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel, cost-effective optical elastography platform using a digital camera.
  • To demonstrate its capability in generating sub-millimetre-scale mechanical contrast.
  • To expand the applications of optical elastography in medical and other fields.

Main Methods:

  • Developed Camera-based Optical Palpation (CBOP) using a digital camera to capture light transmission through a micro-porous silicone layer.
  • Quantified light intensity changes to deduce strain within the layer upon compression.
  • Converted strain maps to optical palpograms (stress maps) by pre-characterizing material stress-strain response.
  • Fabricated micro-porous layers and tested with structured phantoms and human breast tissue.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a spatial resolution as high as 290 µm, comparable to OCT-based methods.
  • Demonstrated high contrast imaging of stiff inclusions (0.5x0.5x1 mm) in phantoms.
  • Successfully delineated tumour from benign tissue in freshly excised human breast samples using CBOP.
  • Validated contrast and resolution with finite element modeling.

Conclusions:

  • CBOP offers a cost-effective, compact, and user-friendly approach to optical elastography.
  • The technique effectively visualizes mechanical contrast at sub-millimetre scales.
  • CBOP shows significant potential for diverse applications, particularly in medical diagnostics.