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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an important interferometric diagnostic technique which provides cross-sectional views of the subsurface microstructure of biological tissues. However, the imaging quality of high-speed OCT is limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Liheng Bian , Jinli Suo , Feng Chen , Qionghai Dai

Displacement estimation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is relevant for several potential applications, e.g. for optical coherence elastography (OCE) for corneal biomechanical characterization. Larger displacements may be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Hossein Khodadadi , Orcun Goksel , Sabine Kling

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a popular modality in ophthalmology and is also used intravascularly. Our interest in this work is OCT in the context of airway abnormalities in infants and children where the high resolution of OCT and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yining Jiao , Amy Oldenburg , Yinghan Xu , Srikamal Soundararajan , Carlton Zdanski , Julia Kimbell , Marc Niethammer

Purpose: Endovascular aortic repair procedures are currently conducted with 2D fluoroscopy imaging. Tracking systems based on fiber Bragg gratings are an emerging technology for the navigation of minimal-invasive instruments which can…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 Sonja Jäckle , Tim Eixmann , Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt , Gereon Hüttmann , Torben Pätz

Multiple scattering of waves in disordered media is a nightmare whether it be for detection or imaging purposes. The best approach so far to get rid of multiple scattering is optical coherence tomography. It basically combines confocal…

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a noninvasive imaging technique that can reveal high-resolution retinal vessels. In this work, we propose an accurate and efficient neural network for retinal vessel segmentation in OCTA…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Haojian Ning , Chengliang Wang , Xinrun Chen , Shiying Li

High anisotropy in volumetric medical images can lead to the inconsistent quantification of anatomical and pathological structures. Particularly in optical coherence tomography (OCT), slice spacing can substantially vary across and within…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Coen de Vente , Mohammad Mohaiminul Islam , Philippe Valmaggia , Carel Hoyng , Adnan Tufail , Clara I. Sánchez

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique that can produce images of the eye at the microscopic level. OCT image segmentation to localise retinal layer boundaries is a fundamental procedure for diagnosing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Jinming Duan , Christopher Tench , Irene Gottlob , Frank Proudlock , Li Bai

In numerous applications, Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) suffers from a limited imaging depth due to signal roll-off, a limited focal range, and autocorrelation noise. Here, we propose a parallel full-field FD-OCT…

Due to its noninvasive character, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become a popular diagnostic method in clinical settings. However, the low-coherence interferometric imaging procedure is inevitably contaminated by heavy speckle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Yongqiang Huang , Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Leyuan Fang , Yi Zhang

Acquiring high-contrast optical images deep inside biological tissues is still a challenging problem. Confocal microscopy is an important tool for biomedical imaging since it improves image quality by rejecting background signals. However,…

A fundamental challenge in endoscopy is how to fabricate a small fiber-optic probe that can achieve comparable function to probes with large, complicated optics (e.g., high resolution and extended depth of focus). To achieve high resolution…

Optical Deflectometric Tomography (ODT) provides an accurate characterization of transparent materials whose complex surfaces present a real challenge for manufacture and control. In ODT, the refractive index map (RIM) of a transparent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-31 Adriana Gonzalez , Laurent Jacques , Christophe De Vleeschouwer , Philippe Antoine

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive imaging modality for the visualisation of microvasculature in vivo that has encountered broad adoption in retinal research. OCTA potential in the assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Ylenia Giarratano , Eleonora Bianchi , Calum Gray , Andrew Morris , Tom MacGillivray , Baljean Dhillon , Miguel O. Bernabeu

A polarization-multiplexed, dual-beam setup is proposed to expand the field of view for a swept source optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) system. This method used a Wollaston prism to split sample path light into two…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-10-30 Jianlong Yang , Rahul Chandwani , Rui Zhao , Zhuo Wang , Yali Jia , David Huang , Gangjun Liu

We demonstrate experimentally quantum-inspired, spectral-domain intensity optical coherence tomography. We show that the technique allows for both axial resolution improvement and dispersion cancellation compared to conventional optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-16 Piotr Ryczkowski , Jari Turunen , Ari T. Friberg , Goëry Genty

We demonstrate a preliminary setup of a combined MHz-OCT and RGB narrowband reflection microscope and investigate the performance of the new RGB branch and different display modes of colored OCT data sets.

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Madita Goeb , Tom Pfeiffer , Robert Huber

We demonstrate an ultrahigh-speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) based on a 100 MHz swept source (SS). An all polarization-maintaining figure-9 mode-locked fiber laser is used as the seed laser. After nonlinear spectral expansion in an…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-03 Dongmei Huang , Feng Li , Zihao Cheng , Xinhuan Feng , P. K. A. Wai

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive depth resolved optical imaging modality, that enables high resolution, cross-sectional imaging in biological tissues and materials at clinically relevant depths. Though OCT offers high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Cerine Lal , Sergey Alexandrov , Sweta Rani , Yi Zhou , Thomas Ritter , Martin Leahy

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging modality that can acquire high-resolution volumes of the retinal vasculature and aid the diagnosis of ocular, neurological and cardiac diseases. Segmenting the…