Lateral laser speckle contrast analysis combined with line beam scanning illumination to improve the sampling depth of blood flow imaging

Opt Lett. 2012 Sep 15;37(18):3774-6. doi: 10.1364/ol.37.003774.

Abstract

We present a lateral laser speckle contrast analysis method combined with line beam scanning illumination to improve the sampling depth of blood flow imaging. Both the phantom and animal experimental results suggest that localized illumination and lateral speckle contrast analysis can significantly enhance the deep blood flow signal to improve the sampling depth of laser speckle contrast imaging compared with the traditional full-field illumination laser speckle contrast analysis method.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Blood Flow Velocity / physiology*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Image Enhancement / instrumentation*
  • Laser-Doppler Flowmetry / instrumentation*
  • Lighting / instrumentation*
  • Male
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar