Ballistic and snake photon imaging for locating optical endomicroscopy fibres
Medical Physics
2017-08-21 v2 Biological Physics
Optics
Abstract
We demonstrate determination of the location of the distal-end of a fibre-optic device deep in tissue through the imaging of ballistic and snake photons using a time resolved single-photon detector array. The fibre was imaged with centimetre resolution, within clinically relevant settings and models. This technique can overcome the limitations imposed by tissue scattering in optically determining the in vivo location of fibre-optic medical instruments.
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@article{arxiv.1703.05572,
title = {Ballistic and snake photon imaging for locating optical endomicroscopy fibres},
author = {M. G. Tanner and T. R. Choudhary and T. H. Craven and B. Mills and M. Bradley and R. K. Henderson and K. Dhaliwal and R. R. Thomson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05572},
year = {2017}
}