Freehand OCT with real-time lateral motion tracking

Xuan Liu, Yong Huang, Peter Gehlbach, Jin U. Kang

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Abstract

Freehand optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems without mechanical scanners can offer greater freedom to access and image sites of interest. However, the scanning velocity during freehand scan is irregular; therefore pseudo B-scan images obtained by stacking sequentially acquired A-scans have a non-uniform spatial sampling rate in the lateral dimension. In this study, we developed a speckle decorrelation method to estimate lateral displacement between sequentially acquired A-scans and used the information extracted from speckle analysis to correct the time-varying lateral scanning speed. We applied this method to a handheld OCT probe and performed calibration experiments to validate our model. Furthermore we demonstrated distortion-free, freehand OCT imaging of various samples including human tissue, in vivo.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationOptical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVII
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
EventOptical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVII - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: Feb 4 2013Feb 6 2013

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume8571
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Other

OtherOptical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVII
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period2/4/132/6/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Biomaterials

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