Feature Of The Week 3/17/13: Using Optical Coherence Tomography to Study Mechanisms of Hearing

The Oregon Hearing Research Centre (OHRC) at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Portland, Oregon is one of the strongest hearing research groups in the world, and one of the early adopters of optical coherence tomography technology in the field of hearing research. Researchers at OHRC have developed a couple of novel OCT based imaging technologies for functional imaging of middle and inner ear. This includes high-speed OCT system for in vivo imaging of microstructural morphology and micvascular perfusion within the cochlea [1,2], phase-sensitive time-domain and Fourier domain OCT for studying cochlear micromechanics [3,4] and middle ear ...