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LED-Based Photoacoustic Imaging for Guiding Peripheral Minimally Invasive Procedures

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LED-Based Photoacoustic Imaging

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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) could be useful for improving guidance of peripheral minimally invasive procedures. In this clinical application space, light emitting diodes (LEDs) have several potential advantages as excitation sources. B-mode ultrasound (US) imaging is often used for guiding invasive medical devices; however, most anatomical structures do not have unique US appearances, so the misidentification of tissues is common. There are several potential uses for LED-based PAI, including identifying procedural targets, avoiding critical tissue structures, and localising invasive medical devices relative to external imaging probes. In this chapter, we discuss the state-of-the-art of visualising tissue structures and medical devices relevant to minimally invasive procedures with PAI, key clinical considerations, and challenges involved with translating LED-based PAI systems from the benchtop to clinical use.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences at the University College London, and Dr Mithun Singh for helpful feedback on this Chapter.

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  1. Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Eleanor Mackle, Efthymios Maneas, Wenfeng Xia, Simeon West & Adrien Desjardins

  2. Wellcome-EPSRC Centre for Interventional & Surgical Sciences, Charles Bell House, Foley Street, London, W1W 7TY, UK

    Eleanor Mackle, Efthymios Maneas & Adrien Desjardins

  3. School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, 4th Floor, Lambeth Wing St. Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK

    Wenfeng Xia

  4. Department of Anaesthesia, University College Hospital, Main Theatres, Maple Bridge Link Corridor, Podium 3, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU, UK

    Simeon West

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Mackle, E., Maneas, E., Xia, W., West, S., Desjardins, A. (2020). LED-Based Photoacoustic Imaging for Guiding Peripheral Minimally Invasive Procedures. In: Kuniyil Ajith Singh, M. (eds) LED-Based Photoacoustic Imaging . Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3984-8_13

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