Endoscopic OCT Angiography Using Clinical Proximal-End Scanning Catheters

Autor: Lin Yao, Yuan Zhou, Kaiyuan Liu, Xiaoting Yin, Xiaofeng Deng, Zhihua Ding, Peng Li
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Photonics, Vol 9, Iss 5, p 329 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2304-6732
DOI: 10.3390/photonics9050329
Popis: Endoscopic optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a promising modality to inspect the microvasculature of inner organs in the early-stage tumor diagnosis. However, an endoscopic clinical proximal-end scanning catheter has limited flow imaging capability due to the nonuniform rotational distortion (NURD) and physiological motion. In this study, a combined local and global (CLG) optical flow algorithm was used to estimate the motion vectors caused by NURD and physiological motion. The motion vectors were used to bicubic-interpolation-resample the OCT structure to ensure that the circumferential pixels were equally spaced in the space domain. Then, angiograms were computed based on the statistical relation between inverse SNR (iSNR) and amplitude decorrelation (IDa), termed as IDa-OCTA. Finally, the ability of this technique for endoscopic OCTA imaging was demonstrated by flow phantom experiments and human nailfold capillary imaging.
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