Optical Coherence Tomography in Tissue Engineering
Fig. 64.1 OCT imaging of a bioreactor with its engineered tissue construct. (a) Schematic of the bioreactor. (b) Transverse and (c) longitudinal OCT scan. The bright pixels within the construct…
Optical Coherence Tomography in Pulmonary Medicine
Fig. 76.1 Lungs, airways (including trachea and branching bronchi and bronchioles), and distal alveoli where gas exchange takes place (Modified from http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl = http://images.webmd.com/images/hw/media65/medical/hw/h5551557.jpg&imgrefurl = http://my.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/hw141715.asp&h=300&w=460&sz=26&tbnid=jBlE6ZHtW7QJ:&tbnh=81&tbnw=125&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlungs%2Bairways%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D) Fig. 76.2 Schematic of…
Image Processing in Intravascular OCT
Fig. 16.1 Common vascular features in IVOCT images The typical speed for current IVOCT imaging is 50,000 lines/s and 100 frames/s (this is the specifications for C7-XRTM OCT Intravascular Imaging…
Superluminescent Diode Light Sources for OCT
(1) Superlum Diodes Ltd., Vvedenskogo N 3, Moscow, 117342, Russia Contrary to laser diodes, the way of superluminescent diodes (SLDs) to their wide use in practice was much longer….
Dental OCT
Fig. 74.1 Structure of tooth and periodontium (DeEtte M. DeVille, M.D. AMA atlas of the body: the teeth © Copyright 1999 American Medical Association) 74.1.1.1 Enamel Consisting of 95 %…
DSP Technology and Methods for OCT
Fig. 14.1 Block diagram of an individual C66x DSP core The instruction set also includes single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) format. SIMD is often used for vector data processing where…
Nonlinear Interferometric Vibrational Imaging (NIVI) with Novel Optical Sources
Fig. 39.1 Comparison of (a) spontaneous Raman scattering, (b) resonant CARS, and (c) nonresonant CARS. Optical frequencies of pump, probe, Stokes, and anti-Stokes photons are related by ω as =…
OCT and Coherence Imaging for the Neurosciences
Fig. 66.1 Calculation of CBF from Doppler OCT measurement of the flow velocity. (a) Blood vessels can be oriented at any angle φ relative to the incident light. (b) The…
Complex Conjugate Removal in SS Optical Coherence Tomography
(8.1) where D i is the photocurrent at one detector; k m is the wavenumber; ρ is the detector responsivity; S is the source spectral density in watts per wavenumber;…
Molecular Optical Coherence Tomography Contrast Enhancement and Imaging
Fig. 47.1 OCT images of fresh, ex vivo porcine eyes after intra-cameral injection of contrast agents. From top to bottom: Control, triamcinolone acetonide 40 mg/mL, prednisolone acetate 1 %, and…
