title: Acousto-optic-assisted diffuse optical tomography.
abstract: We introduce and experimentally demonstrate acousto-optic-assisted diffuse optical tomography (DOT) using a holography-based acousto-optic setup. The method is based on probing a scattering medium with a localized acoustical modulation of the phase of the scattered light. The optical properties of the scattering medium are recovered with ultrasound-limited resolution by applying DOT reconstruction methods on a set of the measured intensities of light, modulated at different locations throughout the medium.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Photonic Imaging Group, Faculty of Science and Technology, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands. a.bratchenia@tnw.utwente.nl
authors.forename: Aliaksandr
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bratchenia
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Molenaar
authors.forename: Ton G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: van Leeuwen
authors.forename: Rob P H
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Kooyman
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D000162:Acoustics; D008027:Light; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D041622:Tomography, Optical / Q000379:methods*