Fig. 46.1 In OCT, a probe beam is reflected from a sample. In a moving sample such as cells in a blood vessel, the frequency of reflected light is Doppler…

Fig. 72.1 Schematic of US/OCT imaging system with an integrated probe [30] We have designed and developed several different integrated OCT/US probes for intravascular imaging [29–31]. Figure 72.2 shows an…

Organ site # Subjects/samples Sensitivity Specificity Source (year, reference, organization, ex wavelength/notes) Cervix (colposcopy) Meta-analysis Many Many 2007, [173] MDACC 1,090 56 % 87 % 2007, [174] Medispectra, 337 604/1,500 92 % (67 %)…

Fig. 73.1 Michelson Diagnostics VivoSight OCT probe Fig. 73.2 OCT image of healthy skin at the forearm. The first superficial layer is the epidermis. The dermis shows signal poor longish…

   Li et al. 2009 [3] Jiao et al. 2009 [2] Jiao et al. 2010 [17] Zhang et al. 2011 [8] Yang et al. 2011 [6] Zhang et al. 2012…

Fig. 70.1 Appearance of atherosclerotic plaque (a) The normal coronary artery is structured into intima (I), media (M), and adventitia (A), which are clearly visualized by OCT. (b) Pathologic intimal…

and Wolfgang Drexler2 (1) Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20/4L, Vienna, A-1090, Austria (2) Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University…

Fig. 13.1 A simple object, data, and image combination to illustrate the process of inference Unfortunately, in practice, we usually do not have the possible objects narrowed down to two…

Fig. 45.1 Longitudinal OCT-based vascular imaging of a breast cancer (MCaIV) tumor growing in a dorsal skinfold chamber (angiography). Color is used to encode vessel depth in these projections of…