title: Portable laser speckle perfusion imaging system based on digital signal processor.
abstract: The ability to monitor blood flow in vivo is of major importance in clinical diagnosis and in basic researches of life science. As a noninvasive full-field technique without the need of scanning, laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is widely used to study blood flow with high spatial and temporal resolution. Current LSCI systems are based on personal computers for image processing with large size, which potentially limit the widespread clinical utility. The need for portable laser speckle contrast imaging system that does not compromise processing efficiency is crucial in clinical diagnosis. However, the processing of laser speckle contrast images is time-consuming due to the heavy calculation for enormous high-resolution image data. To address this problem, a portable laser speckle perfusion imaging system based on digital signal processor (DSP) and the algorithm which is suitable for DSP is described. With highly integrated DSP and the algorithm, we have markedly reduced the size and weight of the system as well as its energy consumption while preserving the high processing speed. In vivo experiments demonstrate that our portable laser speckle perfusion imaging system can obtain blood flow images at 25 frames per second with the resolution of 640 × 480 pixels. The portable and lightweight features make it capable of being adapted to a wide variety of application areas such as research laboratory, operating room, ambulance, and even disaster site.
authors.affiliation: Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xuejun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Nengyun
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Xiaoli
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Pengcheng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Qingming
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003201:Computers; D004867:Equipment Design; D007834:Lasers; D055420:Perfusion Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D051381:Rats; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software