Exploration and Practice in Photoacoustic Measurement for Glucose Concentration Based on Tunable Pulsed Laser Induced Ultrasound

In this article, a tunable pulsed laser induced photoacoustic measurement setup of monitoring glucose concentration was established in the forward mode. In experiments, the time-resolved photoacoustic signal of glucose aqueous solution with different concentrations of 0-300 mg/dl were captured and averaged 512 times, and the photoacoustic peak-to-peak values were recorded using the wavelength scan in NIR region of 1300-2300 nm. The optimal characteristic wavelengths of glucose were determined via the difference spectral and the first derivative spectral algorithm, and correction models between peak-to-peak values of optimal wavelengths and concentration gradients were established using multivariate linear regression algorithm. Experimental results demonstrated that the profile and logarithm shape of time-resolved photoacoustic signal for glucose solutions were in good agreement with photoacoustic theories. The prediction effect of optimal wavelength of 1510 nm was best, its root-mean-square errors of correction and prediction were 12.14 and 8.45 mg/dl, respectively, the correlation coefficient reached 0.9856.