Volumetric optoacoustic monitoring of endovenous laser treatments

Thomas Felix Fehm; Xosé Luís Deán-Ben; Peter Schaur; Ronald Sroka; Daniel Razansky

doi:10.1117/12.2209075

15 March 2016 Volumetric optoacoustic monitoring of endovenous laser treatments

Thomas Felix Fehm, Xosé Luís Deán-Ben, Peter Schaur, Ronald Sroka, Daniel Razansky

Proceedings Volume 9708, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2016; 97080F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209075
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is one of the most common medical conditions with reported prevalence estimates as high as 30% in the adult population. Although conservative management with compression therapy may improve the symptoms associated with CVI, healing often demands invasive procedures. Besides established surgical methods like vein stripping or bypassing, endovenous laser therapy (ELT) emerged as a promising novel treatment option during the last 15 years offering multiple advantages such as less pain and faster recovery. Much of the treatment success hereby depends on monitoring of the treatment progression using clinical imaging modalities such as Doppler ultrasound. The latter however do not provide sufficient contrast, spatial resolution and three-dimensional imaging capacity which is necessary for accurate online lesion assessment during treatment. As a consequence, incidence of recanalization, lack of vessel occlusion and collateral damage remains highly variable among patients. In this study, we examined the capacity of volumetric optoacoustic tomography (VOT) for real-time monitoring of ELT using an ex-vivo ox foot model. ELT was performed on subcutaneous veins while optoacoustic signals were acquired and reconstructed in real-time and at a spatial resolution in the order of 200μm. VOT images showed spatio-temporal maps of the lesion progression, characteristics of the vessel wall, and position of the ablation fiber’s tip during the pull back. It was also possible to correlate the images with the temperature elevation measured in the area adjacent to the ablation spot. We conclude that VOT is a promising tool for providing online feedback during endovenous laser therapy.

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Thomas Felix Fehm, Xosé Luís Deán-Ben, Peter Schaur, Ronald Sroka, and Daniel Razansky "Volumetric optoacoustic monitoring of endovenous laser treatments", Proc. SPIE 9708, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2016, 97080F (15 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209075

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