Optical coherence tomography: a review of clinical development from bench to bedside

AM Zysk, FT Nguyen, AL Oldenburg… - … of biomedical optics, 2007 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Since its introduction, optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology has advanced from
the laboratory bench to the clinic and back again. Arising from the fields of low coherence …

Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography

W Drexler - Journal of biomedical optics, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In the past two decades, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been established as an
adjunct diagnostic technique for noninvasive, high-resolution, cross-sectional imaging in a …

Optical coherence tomography-principles and applications

AF Fercher, W Drexler, CK Hitzenberger… - Reports on progress in …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
There have been three basic approaches to optical tomography since the early 1980s:
diffraction tomography, diffuse optical tomography and optical coherence tomography …

Recent developments in optical coherence tomography for imaging the retina

MEJ van Velthoven, DJ Faber, FD Verbraak… - Progress in retinal and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was introduced in ophthalmology a decade ago.
Within a few years in vivo imaging of the healthy retina and optic nerve head and of retinal …

Birefringence imaging of human skin by polarization-sensitive spectral interferometric optical coherence tomography

Y Yasuno, S Makita, Y Sutoh, M Itoh, T Yatagai - Optics letters, 2002 - opg.optica.org
We have developed a spectral interferometric optical coherence tomography (OCT) system
with polarization sensitivity that is able to measure a two-dimensional tomographic image by …

Introduction to optical coherence tomography

J Fujimoto, W Drexler - Optical coherence tomography: Technology and …, 2008 - Springer
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging optical imaging modality in biomedical
optics and medicine. OCT performs high resolution, cross-sectional imaging of the internal …

Ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography imaging with a broadband superluminescent diode light source

TH Ko, DC Adler, JG Fujimoto, D Mamedov… - Optics …, 2004 - opg.optica.org
Ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography imaging is performed with a compact
broadband superluminescent diode light source. The source consists of two multiplexed …

Polarization-sensitive complex Fourier domain optical coherence tomography for Jones matrix imaging of biological samples

Y Yasuno, S Makita, T Endo, M Itoh, T Yatagai… - Applied Physics …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
A polarization-sensitive Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (PS-FD-OCT) system
is demonstrated. This OCT system is based on a spectral interferometer, does not require …

Differential spectral interferometry: an imaging technique for biomedical applications

AB Vakhtin, KA Peterson, WR Wood, DJ Kane - Optics Letters, 2003 - opg.optica.org
Differential spectral interferometry (DSI), a novel method of biomedical imaging that
combines the high dynamic range of optical coherence tomography (OCT) with inherently …

Broadband or mid-infrared fiber light sources

MN Islam - US Patent 7,519,253, 2009 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A broadband light source includes one or more laser diodes that are
capable of generating a pump signal having a wave length shorter than 2.5 microns, a pulse …