Abstract
A time-resolved optical imaging system using near-infrared light has been developed and its performance is demonstrated. The system had three pulsed light sources and total 64 channels of detection, working simultaneously for acquisition of the time-resolved data of the pulsed light transmitted through scattering media like biological tissues. The light sources were provided by high power picosecond pulsed diode lasers, and optical switches directed one of the light sources to the object through an optical fiber. The light signals re-emitted from the surface of the object were collected by optical fibers, and transmitted to a time-resolved detecting system. Each of the detecting channels consisted of an optical attenuator, a fast photomultiplier, and a time-correlated single photon counting circuit which contained a miniaturized constant fraction discriminator / time-to-amplitude converter module, and a signal acquisition unit with an A/D converter. The performance and potentiality of the imaging system have been examined by the image reconstruction from the measured data using solid phantoms containing absorbing rods and blood flow.
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