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Volumetric imaging of blood flow within cochlea in gerbil in vivo

  • Niloy Choudhury
  • , Fangyi Chen
  • , Xiaorui Shi
  • , Alfred L. Nuttall
  • , Ruikang K. Wang

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Abstract

Changes in blood flow to the inner ear are thought to influence a number of cochlear diseases, including noise-induced hearing loss, sudden hearing loss, and Menieres disease. Advances have been made in the areas of vital microscopic studies of microcirculation, and the laser Doppler flowmetry. But none of these techniques can provide in vivo 3-D mapping of microvascular perfusion within the cochlea. To overcome this limitation, we have developed and used a method of optical microangiography (OMAG) that can generate 3-D angiograms within millimeter of tissue depths by analyzing the endogenous optical scattering signal obtained from an illuminated sample. We used OMAG to visualize the cochlear microcirculation of adult living gerbil through the intact cochlea, which would be difficult, if not impossible, by use of any other current techniques.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5299290
Pages (from-to)524-529
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume16
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2010

Funding

Manuscript received July 14, 2009; revised August 21, 2009; accepted September 11, 2009. Date of publication October 30, 2009; date of current version June 4, 2010. This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders under Grant DC010201, Grant DC 00105, and Grant DC 8888, by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute under Grant HL093140, and by the American Heart Association under Grant 0855733G.

FundersFunder number
National Institute of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteHL093140
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders R01DC012546 Xue Zhong Liu National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders R01DC012115 Xue Zhong Liu National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders R01DC014427 Ulrich Müller Peter G Barr-Gillespie National Institute on Deafnessand Other Communication Disorders R01DC005965 Ulrich Müller National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication DisordersDC010201, DC 00105, DC 8888
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association0855733G

    Keywords

    • Biomedical imaging
    • Cochlear blood flow
    • Optical coherence tomography
    • Optical microangiography

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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