Advanced Technologies for Structural and Functional Optical Coherence Tomography.

摘要

This program, AFOSR FA9550-10-1-0551, entitled Advanced Technologies for Structural and Functional Optical Coherence Tomography, is a multidisciplinary collaborative program among investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics (P. I. James Fujimoto, Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); the Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (David Boas, Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Director, Optical Imaging Core & Lab, Martinos Center, Department of Radiology, MGH) and the Tufts University School of Medicine, New England Eye Center (Jay Duker, M.D., Director of the New England Eye Center, Chairman of Ophthalmology). The objective of this program is to develop the next generation of advanced technology for OCT with an emphasis on ultrahigh speed structural and functional imaging and to explore applications in key areas. Emphasis is placed on ophthalmology, the area in which OCT has had the largest clinical impact to date, and brain science, an emerging area where structural and functional imaging are enabling advances in fundamental research. Functional imaging of the retina and brain are synergistic and provide a cross-platform approach to develop and validate new methods. The technology and approaches developed in this program promise to lay the foundation for a range of new applications in fundamental research and clinical medicine.