Abstract
We propose and studied optical coherence tomography (OCT) combining spectroscopic (SOCT) and speckle variance (svOCT) functions to effectively detect locations of microvasculatures and assess blood oxygen saturation level. Chorioallantoic membrane of a chick embryo was imaged in vivo to perform the analysis of the system. We also studied the effect of speckle in spectral domain using experimental data and performed time-averaging to reduce speckle noise locally. We combined SOCT and svOCT images using hue, saturation and value (HSV) color map to show the localized spectroscopic property of blood. Results show distinct spectroscopic properties between arterial blood and capillary blood.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2995-3009 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Biomedical Optics Express |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biotechnology
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics