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Phase-stable Doppler OCT at 19 MHz Using a Stretched-pulse Mode-locked Laser

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Specialty Radiology
Date 2018 Mar 16
PMID 29541496
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We present a swept-wavelength optical coherence tomography (OCT) system with a 19 MHz laser source and electronic phase-locking of the source, acquisition clock, and beam scanning mirrors. The laser is based on stretched-pulse active mode-locking using an electro-optic modulator. Beam scanning in the fast axis uses a resonant micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) -based mirror at ~23.8 kHz. Acquisition is performed at 1.78 Gigasamples per second using an external fixed clock. Phase sensitive imaging without need for k-clocking, A-line triggers, or phase-calibration methods is demonstrated. The system was used to demonstrate inter-frame and inter-volume Doppler imaging in the mouse ear and brain at 4D acquisition rates of 1, 30, 60 and 100 volumes/sec (V-scans/s). Angiography based on inter-frame and inter-volume methods are presented. The platform offers extremely fast and phase-stable measurements that can be used in preclinical angiographic and Doppler investigations of perfusion dynamics.

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