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    • Photonics

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    • Light scattering in biological tissues limits imaging depth and resolution.
    • Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) offers deep tissue imaging but suffers from low resolution and slow speeds.
    • Existing DOT systems achieve only centimeter-scale resolution with infeasible real-time imaging.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel diffuse optical tomography technique for high-resolution, deep tissue imaging.
    • To overcome the limitations of conventional DOT systems in terms of resolution, speed, and real-time capabilities.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized time-of-flight diffuse optical tomography (ToF-DOT) and its confocal variant (CToF-DOT) to exploit photon travel time information.
    • Implemented innovations including confocal measurements, multiplexed illumination sources for reduced acquisition time, and a novel convolutional approximation for fast reconstruction.
    • Achieved millimeter spatial resolution in highly scattered diffusion regimes.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstrated millimeter spatial resolution in deep tissue imaging, significantly improving upon conventional DOT.
    • Reduced measurement acquisition time through confocal measurements and multiplexed illumination.
    • Developed a fast reconstruction algorithm with a 100x speedup compared to traditional DOT techniques.

    Conclusions:

    • Time-of-flight diffuse optical tomography (ToF-DOT) enables millimeter resolution deep tissue imaging.
    • Innovations in ToF-DOT significantly enhance imaging speed and reconstruction efficiency.
    • These advances represent a crucial step towards real-time, high-resolution deep tissue imaging using DOT.