Summary of Chrono-Coherent Imaging in Medicine. (Reannouncement with New Availability Information).

摘要

We describe demonstration experiments for a new method of medical diagnostic imaging. The method is called Chrono-Coherent Imaging (CCI) and it can be used in a transmission geometry to form images in the presence of overwhelming scattered light, which blocks conventional image formation. Future applications are for imaging inside the hi-An body where tissue light scattering normally obscures image formation. In a transmission geometry the scattered light will take different time delays to reach a recording medium than will the very weak unscattered light which contains image information. The recording of the image for a series of times is not done as a real image with ultrashort gating devices such as streak cameras or Kerr shutters, but the recording is done coherently like a hologram with the subpicosecond coherence properties of the laser pulse. By using a ti sweep of a reference laser beam on the recording medium, similar to Light-In-Flight Holography, we can make a series of coherent images with a single laser exposure, even in the presence of very large incoherent exposure by the scattered light. These images are much like an X-ray in that cumulative transmission effects are recorded throughout the object, but in CCI the time series of images has both refractive index and absorption information. Many other features such as tissue selectivity by wavelength tuning, depth enhancement and three dimensional image reconstruction are possible with the new imaging method of CCI.