Mapping breast cancer blood flow index, composition, and metabolism in a human subject using combined diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging and diffuse correlation spectroscopy

J Biomed Opt. 2017 Apr 1;22(4):45003. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.22.4.045003.

Abstract

Diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging (DOSI) and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) are model-based near-infrared (NIR) methods that measure tissue optical properties (broadband absorption, ? a , and reduced scattering, ? s ? ) and blood flow (blood flow index, BFI), respectively. DOSI-derived ? a values are used to determine composition by calculating the tissue concentration of oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin ( HbO 2 , HbR), water, and lipid. We developed and evaluated a combined, coregistered DOSI/DCS handheld probe for mapping and imaging these parameters. We show that uncertainties of 0.3 ?? mm ? 1 (37%) in ? s ? and 0.003 ?? mm ? 1 (33%) in ? a lead to ? 53 % and 9% errors in BFI, respectively. DOSI/DCS imaging of a solid tissue-simulating flow phantom and

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / blood supply*
  • Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / drug therapy
  • Diffusion
  • Female
  • Hemoglobins / analysis
  • Humans
  • Lipids / blood
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy
  • Oxyhemoglobins / analysis
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Spectrophotometry / methods*
  • Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared / methods*
  • Tomography, Optical / methods*

Substances

  • Hemoglobins
  • Lipids
  • Oxyhemoglobins
  • deoxyhemoglobin