Towards freehand image acquisition in optical coherence tomography

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• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Eric J. Chaney
• Steven G. Adie
• Stephen A. Boppart

1. A new data-capture method could provide increased flexibility for clinical imaging applications. Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a biomedical diagnostic-imaging technique, is currently transitioning from the research laboratory into clinical practice.1 Providing micrometer-scale resolution over millimeter-scale fields of view, OCT is the optical analog of ultrasound. It uses low-coherence interferometry to perform optical ranging in biological tissue. Clinical applications under investigation include optical biopsy2 and detection of tumor margins during image-guided surgery.3 The clinical applications of OCT benefit from its real-time imaging capability and diverse sample-arm designs, including hand-held probes, rotating fiber-optic catheters, and miniature needles. The real-time diagnostic capability has ... (Read Full Article)

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