For specific cerebrovascular diseases such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease, it is urgent to detect the chronic changes of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) for a long time. interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy (iDWS) based on optical heterodyne detection is expected to improve the detection sensitivity and reduce the interference of scalp blood flow. However, iDWS technology is difficult to achieve two-dimensional blood flow imaging. Therefore, this research proposes a interferometric diffusing speckle contrast imaging (iDSCI) system for monitoring rCBF, which combines an improved diffusion speckle contrast analysis method with iDWS technology. The dynamic phantom experiment demonstrated a good linear relationship between the reconstructed relative blood flow index and the actual flow velocity, and multi-parameter analysis validated the effectiveness of the iDSCI system in monitoring rCBF velocity, improving detection accuracy from 0.82 to 0.97. Therefore, the iDSCI system has the potential to provides a new theoretical basis for the early diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases in the future.
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