TY - GEN
T1 - Study for evaluation of skin aging with photoacoustic microscopy
AU - Hattori, Hiroki
AU - Namita, Takeshi
AU - Kondo, Kengo
AU - Yamakawa, Makoto
AU - Shiina, Tsuyoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by the Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disrupt Technologies (ImPACT) program of the cabinet office of Japan and the Incubation Program of Kyoto University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 SPIE.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Skin aging caused by ultraviolet light exposure is one of the serious problems from the viewpoint of beauty and healthcare. This is because ultraviolet light can cause age spot, wrinkles, at the worst case, skin cancer and so on. To evaluate skin aging, various modalities are being used, such as histopathological diagnosis, optical coherence tomography, ultrasound examination (B-mode imaging). However, they have disadvantages in terms of invasiveness, penetration depth and tissue specificity, respectively. To overcome these defects, photoacoustic imaging (PAI), a novel modality was used in this work. This modality can portray differences of tissue characteristics non-invasively. In this experiment, human skin tissues in various generations (i.e. various degrees of photo-aging) were measured by using optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) and acoustic resolution photoacoustic microscopy (AR-PAM). To verify the feasibility of quantitative skin aging evaluation with PA technique, signals from sectioned human skin (cheek and buttock; female from 28 to 95 years old) were measured with PA microscopy. The effects of photo-aging progress on the signal intensity were investigated. The results demonstrated that the PA signal from the dermis increases with aging progress. These analyses demonstrate the feasibility of quantitative skin aging evaluation with a PA imaging system.
AB - Skin aging caused by ultraviolet light exposure is one of the serious problems from the viewpoint of beauty and healthcare. This is because ultraviolet light can cause age spot, wrinkles, at the worst case, skin cancer and so on. To evaluate skin aging, various modalities are being used, such as histopathological diagnosis, optical coherence tomography, ultrasound examination (B-mode imaging). However, they have disadvantages in terms of invasiveness, penetration depth and tissue specificity, respectively. To overcome these defects, photoacoustic imaging (PAI), a novel modality was used in this work. This modality can portray differences of tissue characteristics non-invasively. In this experiment, human skin tissues in various generations (i.e. various degrees of photo-aging) were measured by using optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) and acoustic resolution photoacoustic microscopy (AR-PAM). To verify the feasibility of quantitative skin aging evaluation with PA technique, signals from sectioned human skin (cheek and buttock; female from 28 to 95 years old) were measured with PA microscopy. The effects of photo-aging progress on the signal intensity were investigated. The results demonstrated that the PA signal from the dermis increases with aging progress. These analyses demonstrate the feasibility of quantitative skin aging evaluation with a PA imaging system.
KW - Dermis
KW - Epidermis
KW - Non-invasive
KW - Optoacoustic
KW - Skin section
KW - Subcutaneous tissue
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2544557
DO - 10.1117/12.2544557
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85082676198
T3 - Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
BT - Photons Plus Ultrasound
A2 - Oraevsky, Alexander A.
A2 - Wang, Lihong V.
PB - SPIE
T2 - Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2020
Y2 - 2 February 2020 through 5 February 2020
ER -