High-speed ophthalmic optical coherence tomography(OCT)systems are of interest because they allow rapid,motion-free,and wide-field retinal imaging.Space-division multiplexing optical coherence tomography(SDMOCT)is a h...High-speed ophthalmic optical coherence tomography(OCT)systems are of interest because they allow rapid,motion-free,and wide-field retinal imaging.Space-division multiplexing optical coherence tomography(SDMOCT)is a high-speed imaging technology that takes advantage of the long coherence length of micro electro mechanical vertical cavity surface emitting laser sources to multiplex multiple images along a single imaging depth.We demonstrate wide-field retinal OCT imaging,acquired at an effective A-scan rate of 800,000 A-scans/s with volumetric images covering up to 12.5 mm×7.4 mm on the retina and captured in less than 1 s.A clinical feasibility study was conducted to compare the ophthalmic SDM-OCT with commercial OCT systems,illustrating the high-speed capability of SDM-OCT in a clinical setting.展开更多
基金National Science Foundation(DBI-1455613,IIP-1623823,IIP-1640707)National Institutes of Health(R01-EB025209)。
文摘High-speed ophthalmic optical coherence tomography(OCT)systems are of interest because they allow rapid,motion-free,and wide-field retinal imaging.Space-division multiplexing optical coherence tomography(SDMOCT)is a high-speed imaging technology that takes advantage of the long coherence length of micro electro mechanical vertical cavity surface emitting laser sources to multiplex multiple images along a single imaging depth.We demonstrate wide-field retinal OCT imaging,acquired at an effective A-scan rate of 800,000 A-scans/s with volumetric images covering up to 12.5 mm×7.4 mm on the retina and captured in less than 1 s.A clinical feasibility study was conducted to compare the ophthalmic SDM-OCT with commercial OCT systems,illustrating the high-speed capability of SDM-OCT in a clinical setting.