Abstract

Pneumonia is an acute lung infection that takes life of many young children in developing countries. Early stage (red hepatization) detection of pneumonia would be pragmatic to control mortality rate. Detection of this disease at early stages demands the knowledge of pathology, making it difficult to screen noninvasively. We propose photoacoustic spectral response (PASR), a noninvasive elasticity-dependent technique for early stage pneumonia detection. We report the quantitative red hepatization detection of pneumonia through median frequency, spectral energy, and variance. Significant contrast in spectral parameters due to change in sample elasticity is found. The tissue-mimicking phantom study illustrates a 39% increase in median frequency for 1.5 times the change in density. On applying to formalin-fixed pneumonia-affected goat lungs, it provides a distinct change in spectral parameters between pneumonia affected areas and normal lungs. The obtained PASR results were found to be highly correlating to standard histopathology. The proposed technique therefore has potential to be a regular diagnostic tool for early pneumonia detection.

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