• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 20, Issue 2, 021102 (2022)
Chaoliang Chen1、*, Weisong Shi2, Zhiyuan Qiu2, Victor X. D. Yang3、4、5, and Wanrong Gao2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science & Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • 2Department of Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
  • 3Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada
  • 4Division of Neurosurgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada
  • 5Division of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P5, Canada
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202220.021102 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Chaoliang Chen, Weisong Shi, Zhiyuan Qiu, Victor X. D. Yang, Wanrong Gao. B-scan-sectioned dynamic micro-optical coherence tomography for bulk-motion suppression[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(2): 021102 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In this Letter, we present B-scan-sectioned dynamic micro-optical coherence tomography (BD-MOCT) for high-quality sub-cellular dynamic contrast imaging. Dynamic micro-optical coherence tomography (D-MOCT) is a functional optical coherence tomography (OCT) technique performed on high-resolution (micron level) OCT systems; hundreds of consecutive B-scans need to be acquired for dynamic signal extraction, which requires relatively long data acquisition time. Bulk motions occurring during data acquisition (even at the micron level) may degrade the quality of the obtained dynamic contrast images. In BD-MOCT, each full B-scan is divided into several sub-B-scans, and each sub-B-scan repeats multiple times before the sample beam moves to the next sub-B-scan. After all of the sub-B-scans for a full B-scan are completely acquired, we stitch all of the sub-B-scans into the same number of full B-scans. In this way, the time interval between two consecutive stitched B-scans could be reduced multiple times for bulk-motion suppression. The performed scanning protocol modulates the scanning sequences of fast scanning and repeat scanning for improving the dynamic contrast image quality, while the total data acquisition time remains almost the same.
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    Chaoliang Chen, Weisong Shi, Zhiyuan Qiu, Victor X. D. Yang, Wanrong Gao. B-scan-sectioned dynamic micro-optical coherence tomography for bulk-motion suppression[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(2): 021102
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