Abstract
A highly sensitive fiber-optic Fabry-Perot photoacoustic transducer is proposed in this work. The transducer will consist of separate transmit and receive fibers. The receiver will be composed of a Fabry-Perot Ultrasound sensor with a selfwritten waveguide with all-optical ultrasound detection with high sensitivity. In previous work, we have shown an increase in resonator Q-factor from 1900 to 3200 for a simulated Fabry-Perot ultrasound detector of 45 μm thickness upon including a waveguide to limit lateral power losses. Subsequently, we demonstrated a prototype device with 30nm gold mirrors and a cavity composed of the photosensitive polymer Benzocyclobutene. This 80 μm thick device showed an improvement in its Q-factor from 2500 to 5200 after a selfaligned waveguide was written into the cavity using UV exposure. Current work uses a significantly faster fabrication technique using a combination of UV-cured epoxies for the cavity medium, and the waveguide within it. This reduces the fabrication time from several hours to a few minutes, and significantly lowers the cost of fabrication. We use a dip-coating technique to deposit the polymer layer. Future work will include the use of Dielectric Bragg mirrors in place of gold to achieve better reflectivity, thereby further improving the Q-factor of the device. The complete transducer presents an ideal solution for intravascular imaging in cases where tissue differentiation is desirable, an important feature in interventional procedures where arterial perforation is a risk. The final design proposed comprises the transducer within a guidewire to guide interventions for Chronic Total Occlusions, a disease state for which there are currently no invasive imaging options.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XVIII |
Editors | Israel Gannot, Israel Gannot |
Publisher | SPIE |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781510614611 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2018 |
Event | Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XVIII 2018 - San Francisco, United States Duration: Jan 27 2018 → Jan 28 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE |
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Volume | 10488 |
ISSN (Print) | 1605-7422 |
Conference
Conference | Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XVIII 2018 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Francisco |
Period | 1/27/18 → 1/28/18 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright © 2018 SPIE.
Keywords
- Fabry-Perot
- Guided Intervention
- Imaging
- Photoacoustic
- Tissue differentiation
- Ultrasound