4D Optical Coherence Tomography based Microangiography achieved by 1.6 MHz FDML Swept source

摘要

We demonstrate the use of an ultra-high speed swept-source optical coherence tomography (OCT) to achieve optical microangiography (OMAG) of microcirculatory tissue beds in vivo. The system is based on a 1310 nm Fourier domain mode locking (FDML) laser with 1.6MHz A-line rate, providing a frame rate of 3.415 KHz, an axial resolution of ~10 µm and signal to noise ratio of 102 dB. Motion from blood flow causes change in OCT signals between consecutive B-frames acquired at the same location. Intensity based inter-frame subtraction algorithm is applied to extract blood flow from tissue background without any motion correction. We demonstrate the capability of this 1.6 MHz OCT system for 4D optical microangiography of in vivo tissue at a volume rate of 4.7 volumes/s (volume size: 512×200×720 voxels).