QUANTITATIVE METHOD FOR OBTAINING TISSUE CHARACTERISTIC FROM OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a quantitative method for obtaining tisse characteristics from an optical coherence tomography image.;SOLUTION: A method and an apparatus for determining properties of a tissue or tissues imaged by optical coherence tomography (OCT) are provided. In one embodiment, the backscatter and attenuation of an OCT optical beam is measured and based on these measurements and indicium such as color is assigned for each portion of the image corresponding to the specific value of the backscatter and attenuation for that portion. The image is then displayed with the indicia and a user can then determine the tissue characteristics. In an alternative embodiment, the tissue characteristics is classified automatically by a program given the combination of backscatter and attenuation values.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT