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Hair-thin optical fiber endoscopes have opened up new paradigms for advanced imaging applications in vivo. In certain applications, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), light-shaping structures may be required on fiber facets to…

Clinical tracking systems are popular but typically require specific tracking markers. During the last years, scanning speed of optical coherence tomography (OCT) has increased to A-scan rates above 1 MHz allowing to acquire volume scans of…

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Modern optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices provide volumetric images with micrometer-scale spatial resolution and a temporal resolution beyond video rate. In this work, we analyze an OCT-based prototypical tracking system which…

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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has become one of the most used imaging modality in ophthalmology. It provides high-resolution, non-invasive visualization of retinal microarchitecture. The automated analysis of OCT images through…

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We demonstrate in a {\it proof-of-concept} experiment spectral-domain optical coherence tomography where steering of the optical beam that probes the sample in a transverse scan does not make use of any mechanical element. Steering is done…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-15 Daniel F. Urrego , Gerard J. Machado , Juan P. Torres

Miniaturized optical imaging systems typically utilize 2-dimensional (2D) actuators to acquire images over a 2D field of view (FOV). Piezoelectric tubes are most compact, but usually produce sub-millimeter FOVs and are difficult to…

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Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel noninvasive imaging modality for visualization of retinal blood flow in the human retina. Using specific OCTA imaging biomarkers for the identification of pathologies, automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Anna Breger , Felix Goldbach , Bianca S. Gerendas , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Martin Ehler

The development of practical sensors for optical coherence tomography (OCT) with undetected photons requires miniaturization via integration. To be practical, these sensors must exhibit a large spectral bandwidth and a high brightness,…

The distinction between malignant and benign tumors is essential to the treatment of cancer. The tissue's elasticity can be used as an indicator for the required tissue characterization. Optical coherence elastography (OCE) probes have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Robin Mieling , Johanna Sprenger , Sarah Latus , Lennart Bargsten , Alexander Schlaefer

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is commonly used to analyze retinal layers for assessment of ocular diseases. In this paper, we propose a method for retinal layer segmentation and quantification of uncertainty based on Bayesian deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Suman Sedai , Bhavna Antony , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Rahil Garnavi

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging modality that extends the functionality of OCT by extracting moving red blood cell signals from surrounding static biological tissues. OCTA has emerged as a valuable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Jinpeng Liao , Tianyu Zhang , Yilong Zhang , Chunhui Li , Zhihong Huang

Spatial resolution in optical microscopy has traditionally been treated as a fixed parameter of the optical system. Here, we present an approach to enhance transverse resolution in beam-scanned optical coherence tomography (OCT) beyond its…

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Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT) is a non-invasive technique capturing cross-sectional area of the retina in micro-meter resolutions. It has been widely used as a auxiliary imaging reference to detect eye-related pathology and predict…

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We present an experimental demonstration of quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT). The technique makes use of an entangled twin-photon light source to carry out axial optical sectioning. QOCT is compared to conventional optical…

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With the advent of neuroimaging and microsurgery, there is a rising need for capturing images through an optical fiber. We present an approach of imaging through a single fiber without mechanical scanning by implementing spatial-spectral…

Dynamic optical coherence elastography (OCE) tracks mechanical wave propagation in the subsurface region of tissue to image its shear modulus. For bulk shear waves, the lateral resolution of the reconstructed modulus map (i.e.,…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one of the non-invasive and easy-to-acquire biomarkers (the thickness of the retinal layers, which is detectable within OCT scans) being investigated to diagnose Alzheimer's disease (AD). This work aims…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Paria Jeihouni , Omid Dehzangi , Annahita Amireskandari , Ali Dabouei , Ali Rezai , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

We present a minimally-invasive endoscope based on a multimode fiber that combines photoacoustic and fluorescence sensing. From the measurement of a transmission matrix during a prior calibration step, a focused spot is produced and…

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) is a three-dimensional (3D) label-free imaging technique. The 3D refractive index distribution of a sample can be reconstructed from multiple two-dimensional optical field images via ODT. Herein, we…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Chansuk Park , Kyeoreh Lee , Yoonseok Baek , Yongkeun Park

Acousto-optical coherence tomography (AOCT) consists in using random phase jumps on ultrasound and light to achieve a millimeter resolution when imaging thick scattering media. We combined this technique with heterodyne off-axis digital…