High-speed 1310 nm-band spectral domain optical coherence tomography at 184,000 lines per second

J Biomed Opt. 2011 Jun;16(6):060506. doi: 10.1117/1.3592492.

Abstract

We propose a useful method to boost the imaging speed for spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) by multiplying a number of high-speed spectrometers used in the system with selective precise control of data-recording and data-reading phases for spectral cameras employed in each spectrometer. To demonstrate the proposed method, we use two spectrometers built in a 1310 nm-band SDOCT system, each equipped with a high-speed InGaAs line-scan camera capable of 92-kHz line-scan rate, to achieve an unprecedented imaging speed at 184,000 lines/s. We validate the multiplied imaging speed by measuring Doppler-induced phase shift in the spectrograms using a flow phantom.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Equipment Design
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / standards