Swept source intraoperative OCT angiography

To accurately guide surgical instruments during ophthalmic procedures,some necessary intraoperative depth perception is required,which standard surgical microscopes supply limit-edly.Intraoperative optical coherence tomography(iOCT),combining optical coherence to-mography(OCT)technology and surgical microscope,enables noninvasive,real-time and high-resolution cross-sectional imaging.Currently,though iOCT enables structural imaging,little research has been done on intraoperative angiography.In this work,we presented a swept-source intraoperative OCT angiography(SS-iOCTA)system based on a standard surgical microscope,which provides both structural and angiographic images.The feasibility of the proposed SS-iOCTA was confirmed through deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty(DALK)of ex vivo porcine eyes and blood perfusion imaging of in vivo rat cortex.High-resolution intraoperative feedback,including sub-surface structure and angiogram of biological tissue,can be visualized simulta-neously with the SS-iOCTA system,which expand the surgeon's capabilities and could be widely used in clinical surgery.