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25 April 2023 Imaging the vasculature of a beating heart by dynamic speckle: the challenge of a quasiperiodic motion
Aurélien Plyer, Elise Colin, Xavier Orlik, Ali Akamkam, Julien Guihaire
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Abstract

The spatial and temporal evolution of the field backscattered by a beating heart while illuminated with a coherent light reveals its macro- and microvascularization in real time. To perform these vascularization images, we use a recently published method of laser speckle imaging, based on the selective detection of spatially depolarized speckle field that is mainly generated by multiple scattering. We consider the calculation of the speckle contrast, by a spatial or temporal estimation. We show that the signal-to-noise ratio of the observed vascular structure can be noticeably increased by a postprocessing method implying the calculation of a motion field that allows the selection of similar frames extracted from different heartbeat periods. This later optimization reveals vascular microstructures with a spatial resolution of the order of 100 μm.

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Aurélien Plyer, Elise Colin, Xavier Orlik, Ali Akamkam, and Julien Guihaire "Imaging the vasculature of a beating heart by dynamic speckle: the challenge of a quasiperiodic motion," Journal of Biomedical Optics 28(4), 046007 (25 April 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.28.4.046007
Received: 11 October 2022; Accepted: 21 March 2023; Published: 25 April 2023
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KEYWORDS
Heart

Speckle

Video

Biomedical optics

Polarimetry

Tunable filters

Transplantation

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