Abstract

Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography (UOT) is a deep-tissue imaging modality that provides optical contrast with acoustic resolution. Among existing implementations, camera-based UOT improves modulation depth through parallel detection but suffers from a low camera frame rate. The condition prohibits this technique from being applied to in vivo applications where speckles decorrelate on a time scale of 1 ms or less. To overcome this challenge, we developed single-exposure camera-based UOT by employing a quaternary phase encoded mask (QPEM). As a proof of concept, we demonstrated imaging of an absorptive target buried inside a dynamic scattering medium with a speckle correlation time as short as 0.49 ms, typical of living biological tissues. Benefiting from the QPEM-enabled single-exposure wavefront measurement (5.5 ms) and GPU-assisted wavefront reconstruction (0.97 ms), the point scanning and result update speed can reach up to 150 Hz. We envision that the QPEM-enabled single-exposure scheme paves the way for in vivo UOT imaging, which holds promise for a variety of medical and biological applications.

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