光声成像与中医药研究

光声成像是生物医学应用领域中的一种新兴的功能型成像方式,其基于光声效应发展而来。光声成像技术可以对生物组织中的结构,功能和分子异常进行无创检测,可对微观和宏观世界的多尺度信息进行检测。该技术已经发展成为神经科学领域最新的研究方法之一。中医诊断疾病主要是通过四诊合参的方法直接根据宏观病症信息,以中医药理论为指导,结合长期的临床实践和丰富的临床经验,以了解病理机制和制定治疗方案。但是,传统中医药理论缺乏现代意义上物质化证据的支持,使其研究和发展受到一定的制约,并阻碍中医药国际化的进程。光声成像技术能从微观形态结构及其功能变化提供诊断信息,为中医药辨证施治提供体内外变化的依据。有利于推进中医药现代化、国际化、标准化的研究进程。

Study on Photoacoustic Imaging and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging functional imaging method in the field of biomedical applications,which is developed based on the photoacoustic effect.Photoacoustic imaging technique can non-invasively detect the structural,functional and molecular anomalies in biological tissues,and can detect multi-scale information in the micro and macro worlds.This technique has developed into one of the latest research methods in the field of neuroscience.The diagnosis of diseases in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)is mainly based on the macro symptom information directly through the method of 4 diagnostic combinations,guided by the TCM theory,and combined with long-term clinical practice and rich clinical experience,so as to understand the pathological mechanism and develop treatment plans.However,TCM theory lacks the support of the evidence of materialization in the modern sense,which restricts its research and development and hinders TCM internationalization.Photoacoustic imaging technique can provide diagnostic information from microscopic morphological structure and functional changes,and provide the basis of internal and external changes for TCM dialectical treatment.It is conducive to promoting the research process of modernization,internationalization and standardization of TCM.