Visualization of Microvasculature by Dual-beam Phase-resolved Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography

Overview

Journal Opt Express

Specialties Biophysics
Ophthalmology

Date 2011 Jan 26

PMID 21263663

Citations 58

Authors

Stefan Zotter

Michael Pircher

Teresa Torzicky

Marco Bonesi

Erich Gotzinger

Rainer A Leitgeb

Christoph K Hitzenberger

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Abstract

We present a dual-beam Doppler optical coherence tomography system for visualizing the microvasculature within the retina. The sample arm beams from two identical spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) systems are combined such that there is a small horizontal offset between them at the retina. Thereby we record two tomograms which are slightly separated in time. Phase-resolved Doppler analysis is performed between these two data sets. This system allows blood capillary imaging with high flow sensitivity and variable velocity range. To demonstrate the performance of our system we present images of the microvascular network around the fovea and around the optic nerve head of the human eye.

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