In vivo application of dynamic optical coherence tomography (DOCT) is hindered by bulk motion of the sample. We demonstrate DOCT imaging of \invivo human skin by adopting a sample-fixation attachment to suppress bulk motion and a subsequent software motion correction to further reduce the effect of sample motion. The performance of the motion-correction method was assessed by DOCT image observation, statistical analysis of the mean DOCT values, and subjective image grading. Both the mean DOCT value analysis and subjective grading showed statistically significant improvement of the DOCT image quality. In addition, a previously unobserved high DOCT layer was identified though image observation, which may represent the stratum basale with high keratinocyte proliferation.
@article{arxiv.2503.21384,
title = {In vivo dynamic optical coherence tomography of human skin with hardware- and software-based motion correction},
author = {Yu Guo and Rion Morishita and Ibrahim Abd El-Sadek and Kohei Yamazaki and Shingo Sakai and Pradipta Mukherjee and Yiheng Lim and Cunyou Bao and Keiichi Sugata and Shinya Kasamatsu and Hiroyuki Yoshida and Shuichi Makita and Yoshiaki Yasuno\},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21384},
year = {2026}
}