Enhancement of in vivo cardiac photoacoustic signal specificity using spatiotemporal singular value decomposition

被引:12
作者
Al Mukaddim, Rashid [1 ,2 ]
Weichmann, Ashley M. [3 ]
Mitchell, Carol C. [4 ]
Varghese, Tomy [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept ECE, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Med Phys, Sch Med & Publ Hlth, 1530 Med Sci Ctr, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[3] UW Carbone Canc Ctr, Small Anim Imaging & Radiotherapy Facil, Madison, WI USA
[4] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Med, Div Cardiovasc Med, Sch Med & Publ Hlth, Madison, WI USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
photoacoustic imaging; preclinical murine cardiac photoacoustic imaging; delay-and-sum beamforming; singular value decomposition; spatiotemporal singular value decomposition processing; TO-NOISE RATIO; REMOVAL; DOPPLER; DELAY; SUM;
D O I
10.1117/1.JBO.26.4.046001
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Significance: Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) can be used to infer molecular information about myocardial health non-invasively in vivo using optical excitation at ultrasonic spatial resolution. For clinical and preclinical linear array imaging systems, conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming is typically used. However, DAS cardiac PA images are prone to artifacts such as diffuse quasi-static clutter with temporally varying noise-reducing myocardial signal specificity. Typically, multiple frame averaging schemes are utilized to improve the quality of cardiac PAI, which affects the spatial and temporal resolution and reduces sensitivity to subtle PA signal variation. Furthermore, frame averaging might corrupt myocardial oxygen saturation quantification due to the presence of natural cardiac wall motion. In this paper, a spatiotemporal singular value decomposition (SVD) processing algorithm is proposed to reduce DAS PAI artifacts and subsequent enhancement of myocardial signal specificity. Aim: Demonstrate enhancement of PA signals from myocardial tissue compared to surrounding tissues and blood inside the left-ventricular (LV) chamber using spatiotemporal SVD processing with electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiratory signal (ECG-R) gated in vivo murine cardiac PAI. Approach: In vivo murine cardiac PAI was performed by collecting single wavelength (850 nm) photoacoustic channel data on eight healthy mice. A three-dimensional (3D) volume of complex PAI data over a cardiac cycle was reconstructed using a custom ECG-R gating algorithm and DAS beamforming. Spatiotemporal SVD was applied on a two-dimensional Casorati matrix generated using the 3D volume of PAI data. The singular value spectrum (SVS) was then filtered to remove contributions from diffuse quasi-static clutter and random noise. Finally, SVD processed beamformed images were derived using filtered SVS and inverse SVD computations. Results: Qualitative comparison with DAS and minimum variance (MV) beamforming shows that SVD processed images had better myocardial signal specificity, contrast, and target detectability. DAS, MV, and SVD images were quantitatively evaluated by calculating contrast ratio (CR), generalized contrast-to-noise ratio (gCNR), and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Quantitative evaluations were done at three cardiac time points (during systole, at end-systole (ES), and during diastole) identified from co-registered ultrasound M-Mode image. Mean CR, gCNR, and SNR values of SVD images at ES were 245, 115.15, and 258.17 times higher than DAS images with statistical significance evaluated with one-way analysis of variance. Conclusions: Our results suggest that significantly better-quality images can be realized using spatiotemporal SVD processing for in vivo murine cardiac PAI. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License.
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