Comparison of phase-shifting techniques for in vivo full-range, high-speed Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography

J Biomed Opt. 2010 Sep-Oct;15(5):056011. doi: 10.1117/1.3494556.

Abstract

Single spectrometer-based complex conjugate artifact removal methods are evaluated for in vivo imaging with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor line scan camera based high-speed Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) at 100,000 axial scans per second. Performance of three different phase-shifting methods with the same OCT engine is evaluated using modified data acquisition schemes, depending on the requirements of each phase-shifting technique. The suppression ratio of complex conjugate artifact images using a paperboard is assessed for all tested methods. Several other characteristics, including a list of additional hardware requirements (beyond standard FD-OCT components) and data acquisition schemes for each of the methods is presented. In vivo full-range images of human fingerpad and nail are shown and compared with standard FD-OCT images. Additionally, a complex-conjugate-free human retinal volume acquired at the speed of 100,000 A-scans/s is presented.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological / statistics & numerical data
  • Fingers / anatomy & histology
  • Fourier Analysis
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Retina / anatomy & histology
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / statistics & numerical data