Fabrication of subcutaneous veins phantom for vessel visualization system

Kai Cheng; Kazuyuki Narita; Yusuke Morita; Eiji Nakamachi; Norihiro Honda; Kunio Awazu

doi:10.1117/12.2022998

25 September 2013 Fabrication of subcutaneous veins phantom for vessel visualization system

Kai Cheng, Kazuyuki Narita, Yusuke Morita, Eiji Nakamachi, Norihiro Honda, Kunio Awazu

Proceedings Volume 8841, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XIV; 884115 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2022998
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The technique of subcutaneous veins imaging by using NIR (Near Infrared Radiation) is widely used in medical applications, such as the intravenous injection and the blood sampling. In the previous study, an automatic 3D blood vessel search and automatic blood sampling system was newly developed. In order to validate this NIR imaging system, we adopted the subcutaneous vein in the human arm and its artificial phantom, which imitate the human fat and blood vessel. The human skin and subcutaneous vein is characterized as the uncertainty object, which has the individual specificity, non-accurate depth information, non-steady state and hardly to be fixed in the examination apparatus. On the other hand, the conventional phantom was quite distinct from the human’s characteristics, such as the non-multilayer structure, disagreement of optical property. In this study, we develop a multilayer phantom, which is quite similar with human skin, for improvement of NIR detection system evaluation. The phantom consists of three layers, such as the epidermis layer, the dermis layer and the subcutaneous fat layer. In subcutaneous fat layer, we built a blood vessel. We use the intralipid to imitate the optical scattering characteristics of human skin, and the hemoglobin and melanin for the optical absorption characteristics. In this study, we did two subjects. First, we decide the fabrication process of the phantom. Second, we compared newly developed phantoms with human skin by using our NIR detecting system, and confirm the availability of these phantoms.

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Kai Cheng, Kazuyuki Narita, Yusuke Morita, Eiji Nakamachi, Norihiro Honda, and Kunio Awazu "Fabrication of subcutaneous veins phantom for vessel visualization system", Proc. SPIE 8841, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XIV, 884115 (25 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2022998

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Skin

Near infrared

Absorption

Optical properties

Veins

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