Yunyao Zhang

Development of measuring diffusion coefficients by digital holographic interferometry in transparent liquid mixtures

As for the measurement of diffusion coefficient in transparent liquids by digital holographic interferometry, there are many kinds depending on the mathematical model and experimental setup. The method of using the distance of the peaks in concentration difference profile to determine diffusion coefficient by Mach-Zehnder interferometric experimental setup, is easy to handle. In order to improve the accuracy and convenience of measurement in this method, we combine procedures of hologram analysis used by Mialdun et al (2011) and those by He et al (2009). By using polynomial to fit the continuous phase difference (interference phase) of object beam, it can be more convenient and accurate to determine the distance between the two peaks. Besides, the shift of initial time has been discussed as a separated topic at the first time and two functions for minimization have been given for determination of the initial time in this paper. With the development, diffusion coefficient of KCl in water at 0.33mol/L and 25 °C has been measured. The diffusion coefficient is 1.844 × 10(-9) m2/s with the uncertainty of ± 0.012 × 10(-9) m2/s. Our measurement has more similar result with other methods than holographic interferometry. The relative uncertainty of diffusion coefficient in our experiment is less than 1% and total uncertainty of temperature is within ± 0.04 K.

Monte Carlo model of light transport in multi-layered tubular organs

We present a Monte Carlo static light migration model (Endo-MCML) to simulate endoscopic optical spectroscopy for tubular organs such as esophagus and colon. The model employs multi-layered hollow cylinder which emitting and receiving light both from the inner boundary to meet the conditions of endoscopy. Inhomogeneous sphere can be added in tissue layers to model cancer or other abnormal changes. The 3D light distribution and exit angle would be recorded as results. The accuracy of the model has been verified by Multi-layered Monte Carlo(MCML) method and NIRFAST. This model can be used for the forward modeling of light transport during endoscopically diffuse optical spectroscopy, light scattering spectroscopy, reflectance spectroscopy and other static optical detection or imaging technologies.

Influence of the particle size on polarization-based range-gated imaging in turbid media

The influence of size of the scatterer on the image contrast for polarization-based range-gated imaging in turbid media is investigated here by Monte Carlo method. Circularly polarized light would be more efficient to eliminate the noise photons for both the isotropic medium as well as the anisotropic medium, as compared with linearly polarized light. The improvement in contrast is pronounced for isotropic medium using either linear or circular polarization. The plausible explanations for these observations are also presented.

Endoscopic diffuse optical tomography for esophagus: Initial investigation

Endoscopic diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a novel approach that can be used in imaging the optical absorption and scattering contrast in the internal organs. In endoscopic DOT, the sources illuminate outward from the internal surface of the organs and the detectors collect the diffused light from the same surface. This new kind of imaging geometry requests modified forward and inverse model. A thin ring-shaped geometry is provided in this paper for solving the forward problem, and the reconstruction of the image is worked out by the NIRFAST package. The esophagus-like model is made to simulate the different scales of carcinoma occurred in the 2D transections. This research will verify the possibility of esophagus imaging using endoscopic DOT, and acquire the potential problems for the further study.