Optical coherence elastography–OCT at work in tissue biomechanics

KV Larin, DD Sampson - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE), as the use of OCT to perform elastography has
come to be known, began in 1998, around ten years after the rest of the field of elastography …

The emergence of optical elastography in biomedicine

BF Kennedy, P Wijesinghe, DD Sampson - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Optical elastography, the use of optics to characterize and map the mechanical properties of
biological tissue, involves measuring the deformation of tissue in response to a load. Such …

Optical coherence elastography in ophthalmology

MA Kirby, I Pelivanov, S Song… - … of biomedical optics, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE) can provide clinically valuable information based on
local measurements of tissue stiffness. Improved light sources and scanning methods in …

Optical coherence elastography for tissue characterization: a review

S Wang, KV Larin - Journal of biophotonics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Optical coherence elastography (OCE) represents the frontier of optical elasticity imaging
techniques and focuses on the micro‐scale assessment of tissue biomechanics in 3D that is …

A review of optical coherence elastography: fundamentals, techniques and prospects

BF Kennedy, KM Kennedy… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In optical coherence elastography, images are formed by map** a mechanical property of
tissue. Such images, known as elastograms, are formed on the microscale, intermediate …

Strain estimation in phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography

BF Kennedy, SH Koh, RA McLaughlin… - Biomedical optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present a theoretical framework for strain estimation in optical coherence elastography
(OCE), based on a statistical analysis of displacement measurements obtained from a …

Noncontact depth-resolved micro-scale optical coherence elastography of the cornea

S Wang, KV Larin - Biomedical optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
High-resolution elastographic assessment of the cornea can greatly assist clinical diagnosis
and treatment of various ocular diseases. Here, we report on the first noncontact depth …

Functional optical coherence tomography: principles and progress

J Kim, W Brown, JR Maher, H Levinson… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, several functional extensions of optical coherence tomography (OCT)
have emerged, and this review highlights key advances in instrumentation, theoretical …

In vivo three-dimensional optical coherence elastography

BF Kennedy, X Liang, SG Adie, DK Gerstmann… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We present the first three-dimensional (3D) data sets recorded using optical coherence
elastography (OCE). Uni-axial strain rate was measured on human skin in vivo using a …

Optical coherence tomography—current technology and applications in clinical and biomedical research

S Marschall, B Sander, M Mogensen… - Analytical and …, 2011 - Springer
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a noninvasive imaging technique that provides real-
time two-and three-dimensional images of scattering samples with micrometer resolution. By …