Retinal photoreceptor imaging with high-speed line-field parallel spectral domain OCT (Conference Presentation)
| Autor: | Wolfgang Drexler, Tilman Schmoll, Daniel Fechtig, Lara M. Wurster, Abhishek Kumar, Michael Pircher, Rainer A. Leitgeb, Laurin Ginner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Physics genetic structures business.industry Detector Michelson interferometer 01 natural sciences law.invention 010309 optics 03 medical and health sciences Line field 030104 developmental biology Optics law 0103 physical sciences Oversampling Cylindrical lens Tomography business Adaptive optics Diffraction grating |
| Zdroj: | Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX. |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2214719 |
| Popis: | We present retinal photoreceptor imaging with a line-field parallel spectral domain OCT modality, utilizing a commercially available 2D CMOS detector array operating at and imaging speed of 500 B-scans/s. Our results demonstrate for the first time in vivo structural and functional retinal assessment with a line-field OCT setup providing sufficient sensitivity, lateral and axial resolution and 3D acquisition rates in order to resolve individual photoreceptor cells. The phase stability of the system is manifested by the high phase-correlation across the lateral FOV on the level of individual photoreceptors. The setup comprises a Michelson interferometer illuminated by a broadband light source, where a line-focus is formed via a cylindrical lens and the back-propagated light from sample and reference arm is detected by a 2D array after passing a diffraction grating. The spot size of the line-focus on the retina is 5μm, which corresponds to a PSF of 50μm and an oversampling factor of 3.6 at the detector plane, respectively. A full 3D stack was recorded in only 0.8 s. We show representative enface images, tomograms and phase-difference maps of cone photoreceptors with a lateral FOV close to 2°. The high-speed capability and the phase stability due to parallel illumination and detection may potentially lead to novel structural and functional diagnostic tools on a cellular and microvascular imaging level. Furthermore, the presented system enables competitive imaging results as compared to respective point scanning modalities and facilitates utilizing software based digital aberration correction algorithms for achieving 3D isotropic resolution across the full FOV. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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