Optical coherence tomography technology and applications

Between to Million OCT imaging procedures are performed per year in ophthalmology. Optical coherence tomography : Technology and applications for neuroimaging. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering Program, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and.

Technology , College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, . Enhanced visualization of macular pathology with the use of ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography.

Real-time assessment of retinal blood flow with ultrafast acquisition by color Doppler Fourier domain optical coherence tomography.

OCT is analogous to ultrasound imaging , except that it uses light instead of sound.

OCT can provide cross-sectional images of tissue structure on the micron scale in situ and in real time. This review article provides an overview of OCT technology , its backgroun and its potential biomedical and clinical applications. In endoscopy, OCT prevails as the only technology capable of high resolution imaging, with almost times better depth . This progress in OCT technology has been . In this paper, we review OCT technology and describe its potential biomedical and clinical applications. Some of the commercially available OCT systems have found their applications in ophthalmology, where one can acquire detailed images from within the retina.

Optical Coherence Tomography ( OCT ) is noninvasive emerging medical imaging technique for acquiring depth resolved information from human tissues. Over the last years OCT has developed into being an essential . This review discusses the present applications of the commercially available spectral-domain OCT (SD- OCT ) systems in the diagnosis and management of retinal. Future OCT innovations such as longer-wavelength OCT systems including the swept-source technology , along with Doppler OCT and en-face imaging, may . AO- OCT technology , its applications that have yielded new knowledge, research areas into which it may . Growth of journal publications involving OCT. Publications are an indicator of scientific and clinical progress.

Ophthalmology and cardiovascular imaging are currently the largest applications of OCT. The paper has four sections: (1) from femtosecond optics to biomedical optics, (2) OCT technology development and early clinical studies, (3) the long road to clinical acceptance, and (4) the . The growth in many other medical specialties has also become significant in the past few years, particularly in the fields of cardiovascular imaging (i.e., coronary intravascular OCT ), dermatology, and gastroenterology. Advances in OCT technology itself, as well as fundamental scientific and industrial applications , are also . OCT performs cross-sectional imaging by measuring the magnitude and echo time delay of backscattered light. Cross-sectional images are generated by performing multiple .