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Project Abstract
Ultrasound imaging is widely used in medicine for diagnostics and therapy. Conventional ultrasound imaging probes
typically use piezoelectric elements to transmit and record signals, and each element requires electrical connections
and circuitry that can make miniaturisation challenging and expensive. By employing all-optical ultrasound transmitters
and receivers fabricated on top of optical fibres, ultrasound imaging probes can be created without any electronic
components and on a very small scale. These all-optical ultrasound probes could potentially have higher sensitivity
and spatial resolution than their electronic counterparts. This project is focused on one aspect of optical imaging probes:
the generation of ultrasound at the distal end of an optical fibre by means of the photoacoustic effect. Modulated light absorbed
in a coating deposited on the end of the fibre causes a small temperature rise which results in an increase in pressure. This
localised pressure increase subsequently propagates into tissue as an acoustic wave. The aim of this project is to optimise
the modulation of the light to obtain ultrasound pulses that provide optimal spatial resolution upon reconstruction. The results
obtained in this project will aid in optimising the image quality of new types of ultrasound imaging probes. The project will be
primarily computational in nature, but will have an experimental component.
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