Optical coherence tomography: an emerging technology for biomedical imaging and optical biopsy

JG Fujimoto, C Pitris, SA Boppart, ME Brezinski - Neoplasia, 2000 - Elsevier
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging technology for performing high-
resolution cross-sectional imaging. OCT is analogous to ultrasound imaging, except that it …

Optical coherence tomography for ultrahigh resolution in vivo imaging

JG Fujimoto - Nature biotechnology, 2003 - nature.com
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging biomedical optical imaging technique
that performs high-resolution, cross-sectional tomographic imaging of microstructure in …

Optical coherence tomography

D Huang, EA Swanson, CP Lin, JS Schuman… - science, 1991 - science.org
A technique called optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been developed for
noninvasive cross-sectional imaging in biological systems. OCT uses low-coherence …

Ultrahigh-resolution ophthalmic optical coherence tomography

W Drexler, U Morgner, RK Ghanta, FX Kärtner… - Nature medicine, 2001 - nature.com
The retinal nerve fiber layer (NFL) is clearly differentiated in Fig. 1, and the variation of its
thickness towards the optic disc, where the ganglion cell axons penetrate the sclera, can be …

Imaging the subcellular structure of human coronary atherosclerosis using micro–optical coherence tomography

L Liu, JA Gardecki, SK Nadkarni, JD Toussaint… - Nature medicine, 2011 - nature.com
Progress in understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) has
been hindered by our inability to observe cells and extracellular components associated …

In vivo ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography

W Drexler, U Morgner, FX Kärtner, C Pitris… - Optics letters, 1999 - opg.optica.org
Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) by use of state of the art broad-
bandwidth femtosecond laser technology is demonstrated and applied to in vivo subcellular …

Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography using continuum generation in an air–silica microstructure optical fiber

I Hartl, XD Li, C Chudoba, RK Ghanta, TH Ko… - Optics letters, 2001 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) using continuum
generation in an air–silica microstructure fiber as a low-coherence light source. A …

Three dimensional optical angiography

RK Wang, SL Jacques, Z Ma, S Hurst, SR Hanson… - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
With existing optical imaging techniques three-dimensional (3-D) map** of microvascular
perfusion within tissue beds is severely limited by the efficient scattering and absorption of …

Theory, developments and applications of optical coherence tomography

PH Tomlins, RK Wang - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we review the developments in optical coherence tomography (OCT) for three-
dimensional non-invasive imaging. A number of different OCT techniques are discussed in …

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 …