Gabor Fusion Master Slave Optical Coherence Tomography

Adrian Podoleanu, Ramona Cernat, Adrian Bradu, Manuel Marques, Niels Møller Israelsen, Ole Bang, Sylvain Rivet, Pearse Keane, David Garway-Heath, Ranjan Rajendram

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    Abstract

    The communication refers to a solution to repetitive change of focus when performing swept source (tunable laser) interferometry. There are now swept source (SS) lasers exhibiting several meters coherence lengths for robotic navigation and cubic meter OCT. However, micron lateral resolution can only be achieved with sufficient high numerical aperture interface optics, in which case the depth range falls below sub-millimeter. Repetition of data collection is needed for each new focus (Gabor). This counteracts the advantage of SS-OCT, that of delivering information from all depths in one scan via a Fourier Transform (FT). To eliminate the time wasted on producing data from all axial range, Master Slave (MS) OCT is proposed, that delivers data while laterally scanning the beam, from a single depth of interest, in real time. We present combination of MS-OCT with 4 repetitions of acquisitions each for a different focus position, to acquire high resolution volumes and en-face OCT from different targets. By combining the two techniques, Gabor filtering and Master/Slave-OCT, a powerful imaging instrument is demonstrated. The MS technique allows simultaneous display of three categories of images in one frame: multiple depth en-face OCT images, two cross-sectional OCT images and a confocal like image obtained by averaging the en-face ones. We also demonstrate the superiority of MS-OCT over its FT based counterpart when used with a Gabor filtering OCT instrument in terms of the speed of assembling the fused volume.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of 2019 21st International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
    Number of pages1
    PublisherIEEE
    Publication date2019
    Pages1-1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    Event21st International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks - Faculty of Science, University of Angers, Angers, France
    Duration: 9 Jul 201913 Jul 2019
    Conference number: 21
    http://www.icton2019.com/

    Conference

    Conference21st International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
    Number21
    LocationFaculty of Science, University of Angers
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityAngers
    Period09/07/201913/07/2019
    SponsorApex Technologies, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, MDPI, Lumomat, Moltech-Anjou, Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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