High-speed widefield photoacoustic microscopy of small-animal hemodynamics. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) has become a popular tool in small-animal hemodynamic studies. However, previous OR-PAM techniques variously lacked a high imaging speed and/or a large field of view, impeding the study of highly dynamic physiologic and pathophysiologic processes over a large region of interest. Here we report a high-speed OR-PAM system with an ultra-wide field of view, enabled by an innovative water-immersible hexagon-mirror scanner. By driving the hexagon-mirror scanner with a high-precision DC motor, the new OR-PAM has achieved a cross-sectional frame rate of 900 Hz over a 12-mm scanning range, which is 3900 times faster than our previous motor-scanner-based system and 10 times faster than the MEMS-scanner-based system. Using this hexagon-scanner-based OR-PAM system, we have imaged epinephrine-induced vasoconstriction in the whole mouse ear and vascular reperfusion after ischemic stroke in the mouse cortex in vivo, with a high spatial resolution and high volumetric imaging speed. We expect that the hexagon-scanner-based OR-PAM system will become a powerful tool for small animal imaging where the hemodynamic responses over a large field of view are of interest.

published proceedings

  • Biomed Opt Express

altmetric score

  • 3.1

author list (cited authors)

  • Lan, B., Liu, W., Wang, Y., Shi, J., Li, Y., Xu, S., ... Yao, J.

citation count

  • 80

complete list of authors

  • Lan, Bangxin||Liu, Wei||Wang, Ya-Chao||Shi, Junhui||Li, Yang||Xu, Song||Sheng, Huaxin||Zhou, Qifa||Zou, Jun||Hoffmann, Ulrike||Yang, Wei||Yao, Junjie

publication date

  • October 2018