Multimodal optical coherence/photoacoustic tomography of skin

摘要

A novel non-invasive in vivo multimodal optical coherence tomography (OCT)/photoacoustic tomography (PAT) imaging system capable of obtaining structural and functional information simultaneously has been demonstrated in skin. A 1060 nm OCT system acquiring 47k depth-scans/s with ~ 7 μm axial and ~ 20 μm transverse resolutions has been incorporated into a backward-mode PA system based on a planar, optically-transparent Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) sensor. In this study, the excitation wavelength was set to 670 nm and a focused laser beam at 1550 nm was used as the sensor interrogation beam. OCT and PAT images were obtained sequentially and the co-registered images were combined to form the final 3D image. OCT/PAT images obtained in vivo from the skin of a hairless mouse and human palmar skin demonstrated the ability of this multimodal imaging system to provide complementary structural and functional information from deeper depths with increased contrast.