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Acquisition-inspired motion artifact modeling and degradation-consistent diffusion restoration in photoacoustic microscopy.

Created on 16 Aug 2026

Authors

Heqing Wang, Shuyan Zhang, Jingtan Li, Xinyi Lim, Naidi Sun, Bin Hu

Published in

Photoacoustics. Volume 51. Pages 100867. Epub Aug 06, 2026.

Abstract

Motion artifacts are a major source of degradation in photoacoustic microscopy (PAM), where sequential raster scanning converts target-probe motion into structured coordinate mismatch, causing line misregistration, vessel discontinuity, truncation, and local deformation. We propose an acquisition-inspired framework for PAM motion artifact modeling and degradation-guided diffusion restoration. Motion corruption is formulated as raster-scan coordinate mismatch and decomposed into inter-line misregistration and intra-line sampling distortion. Based on this formulation, we construct a controllable simulator that generates paired clean-corrupted PAM images with explicit degradation priors. A conditional diffusion restoration model then uses motion-related priors for guidance and enforces degradation consistency by applying the forward inter-line and intra-line degradation operators during training. To support real-data inference, a degradation prior estimator predicts row-wise displacement and artifact-region information from corrupted images. Experiments on synthetic mouse brain PAM data show superior restoration performance, while selected real examples provide preliminary qualitative observations on non-synthetic motion-corrupted acquisitions.

PMID:
42604198
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 16 Aug 2026.

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