Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a method for measuring the thickness of a tissue by using detected emergent light intensity, which can be combined with the flexible electronic technology which is rapidly developed at present to realize the aim of monitoring the growth of the biological tissue in real time and has far-reaching significance to the field of biomedicine.
A method for measuring the thickness of the tissue by using the detected emergent light intensity specifically comprises the following steps:
s1: obtaining the refractive index and the attenuation coefficient of the tissue to be detected;
s2: attaching a light source and a photoelectric detector in a pair manner, and detecting the light intensity of incident light of the light source;
s3: respectively attaching a light source and a photoelectric detector to the front side and the rear side of a tissue to be detected, wherein the path of light emitted by the light source is vertical to the surface of the tissue to be detected and is received by the photoelectric detector, the light source is light with a single wavelength, and the photosensitive area of the photoelectric detector is not more than the area of an incident light spot of the light source;
s4: detecting the light intensity of emergent light of the photoelectric detector;
s5: according to the formula
Calculating the tissue thickness, where d is the tissue thickness, r is the reflection coefficient at the interface when light is incident from
medium 1 to
medium 2, μ
tAttenuation coefficient of incident light in tissue to be measured, E
0For recorded incident light intensity, E
tFor detected intensity of emergent light, n
1Refractive index of the external material of the tissue, n
2Is the refractive index of the tissue to be measured.
Furthermore, the refractive index and the attenuation coefficient of the tissue to be detected are obtained by experimental calibration or literature search.
Further, the wavelength of the incident light source is 633 nm.
Furthermore, the light source is a flexible LED light source, and the photoelectric detector is a small ultrathin flexible photoelectric detector.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
the method for monitoring the change process of the tissue thickness by detecting the change of the emergent light intensity can calculate the tissue thickness by measuring the light intensity transmitted out of the tissue according to the tissue optical correlation theory. At present, the technology development in the field of flexible electronics is relatively fast, a flexible light source and a flexible photoelectric detector which are compatible with biological tissues can be prepared and obtained through the flexible electronic technology, and the purpose of monitoring the tissue thickness in real time can be achieved by applying the method provided by the invention and combining the flexible electronic technology. Monitoring tissue thickness is critical to the diagnosis and prevention of certain diseases, and thus, the method proposed by the present invention is of far reaching importance in the biomedical field.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments, and the objects and effects of the present invention will become more apparent, it being understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present invention and are not intended to limit the present invention.
The invention provides a method for measuring tissue thickness by detecting emergent light intensity, which comprises the steps of firstly determining the refractive index and attenuation coefficient of a tissue to be measured by an experimental calibration or literature search method, selecting an incident light source and a photoelectric detector according to the characteristics of the tissue to be measured, recording the incident light intensity, pasting the light source and the photoelectric detector on the two sides of the tissue, measuring the change of transmitted light intensity by the photoelectric detector, and calculating the tissue thickness under the corresponding transmitted light intensity according to a formula, wherein the pasting position is shown in figure 1.
In order to calculate the tissue thickness according to the transmitted light intensity detected by the photodetector by a formula, the refractive index of the tissue and the attenuation coefficient of the incident light wavelength need to be determined by an experimental calibration method or a literature search method.
In order to obtain a greater transmitted intensity at the same incident light intensity, which is selected over the tissue optical window band, preferably a 633nm wavelength light source, in order to allow the light entering the tissue to be substantially attenuated without being strongly absorbed by the tissue.
In order to enable the method to be applied to the inside of a living body, a flexible LED light source is selected as the light source, a small ultrathin flexible photoelectric detector is selected as the photoelectric detector, and the light emitted by the LED and received by the photoelectric detector can be regarded as a collimated light beam due to the fact that the photosensitive area of the photoelectric detector is small enough.
The method comprises the following specific steps:
s1, obtaining relevant information such as refractive index and attenuation coefficient of the tissue to be detected by means of experimental calibration or data consulting and the like;
s2, measuring the luminous intensity of the flexible LED by using an ultrathin and miniaturized flexible photoelectric detector, wherein the photoelectric detector is tightly attached to the light source and is positioned at the center of the light source as much as possible, simulating the condition when the LED is in contact with the tissue, and recording the obtained light intensity as E0The flexible LED is a monochromatic light source, and a light source with the wavelength of 633nm is selected;
s3, attaching the flexible LED to one side of the tissue and enabling the flexible LED to emit light in a normally bright mode;
s4, attaching the ultrathin, flexible and miniaturized flexible photoelectric detector to the other side of the tissue, facing the position of the flexible LED light source, and recording the transmission light intensity value detected by the photoelectric detector as E, wherein the positions of the light source and the photoelectric detector attached to the surface of the tissue are shown in figure 1t;
S5, according to the formula:
the thickness of the tissue is calculated by measuring the resulting transmitted light intensity.
For better understanding of the origin of the formula in step S5, the idea and steps when the formula is reversed are attached below. When light is incident normally to the tissue surface, a portion of the light is reflected at the interface, with a reflection coefficient r,
so that the transmitted portion has a light intensity of E
1=E
0(1-r) the intensity of light transmitted into the tissue, which, when transmitted along the interior of the tissue, attenuates due to absorption and scattering as the transmission distance in the tissue increases, according to beer's law, the law of the intensity of light in the tissue as a function of the depth of incidence is:
wherein x is the incident depth of light in the tissue, x is 0 at the incident position, d is the thickness of the tissue, and when the light is transmitted to the boundary at the other side of the tissue, the light intensity is changed
After the light reaches the boundary on the other side, a part of the light is reflected back to the inside of the tissue to continuously interact with the tissue, and a part of the light is transmitted out of the tissue
Through formula transformation, the relation between the tissue width and the transmitted light intensity is obtained
Where d is the tissue thickness, r is the reflection coefficient of light incident on the tissue from outside the tissue to inside the tissue, μ
tAttenuation coefficient of incident light in tissue to be measured, E
0For recorded incident light intensity, E
tFor detected intensity of emergent light, n
1Refractive index of the external material of the tissue, n
2Is the refractive index of the tissue to be measured.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the invention, and although the invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing examples, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes in the form and details of the embodiments may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof. All modifications, equivalents and the like which come within the spirit and principle of the invention are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.