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  • Title: Spatial localization of mechanical excitation affects spatial resolution, contrast, and contrast-to-noise ratio in acoustic radiation force optical coherence elastography.
    Author: Leartprapun N, Iyer RR, Mackey CD, Adie SG.
    Journal: Biomed Opt Express; 2019 Nov 01; 10(11):5877-5904. PubMed ID: 31799053.
    Abstract:
    The notion that a spatially confined mechanical excitation would produce an elastogram with high spatial resolution has motivated the development of various elastography techniques with localized mechanical excitation. However, a quantitative investigation of the effects of spatial localization of mechanical excitation on the spatial resolution of elastograms is still lacking in optical coherence elastography (OCE). Here, we experimentally investigated the effect of spatial localization of acoustic radiation force (ARF) excitation on spatial resolution, contrast, and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of dynamic uniaxial strain elastograms in dynamic ARF-OCE, based on a framework for analyzing the factors that influence the quality of the elastogram at different stages of the elastography workflow. Our results show that localized ARF excitation with a smaller acoustic focal spot size produced a strain elastogram with superior spatial resolution, contrast, and CNR. Our results also suggest that the spatial extent spanned by the displacement response in the sample may connect between the spatial localization of the mechanical excitation and the resulting elastogram quality. The elastography framework and experimental approach presented here may provide a basis for the quantitative analysis of elastogram quality in OCE that can be adapted and applied to different OCE systems and applications.
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