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Ultrahigh speed endoscopic optical coherence tomography using micromotor imaging catheter and VCSEL technology

We developed a micromotor based miniature catheter with an outer diameter of 3.2 mm for ultrahigh speed endoscopic swept source optical coherence tomography (OCT) using a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) at a 1 MHz axial scan rate. The micromotor can rotate a micro-prism at several hun...

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Autores principales: Tsai, Tsung-Han, Potsaid, Benjamin, Tao, Yuankai K., Jayaraman, Vijaysekhar, Jiang, James, Heim, Peter J. S., Kraus, Martin F., Zhou, Chao, Hornegger, Joachim, Mashimo, Hiroshi, Cable, Alex E., Fujimoto, James G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Optical Society of America 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23847737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.4.001119
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Sumario:We developed a micromotor based miniature catheter with an outer diameter of 3.2 mm for ultrahigh speed endoscopic swept source optical coherence tomography (OCT) using a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) at a 1 MHz axial scan rate. The micromotor can rotate a micro-prism at several hundred frames per second with less than 5 V drive voltage to provide fast and stable scanning, which is not sensitive to the bending of the catheter. The side-viewing probe can be pulled back to acquire a three-dimensional (3D) data set covering a large area on the specimen. The VCSEL provides a high axial scan rate to support dense sampling under high frame rate operation. Using a high speed data acquisition system, in vivo 3D-OCT imaging in the rabbit GI tract and ex vivo imaging of a human colon specimen with 8 μm axial resolution, 8 μm lateral resolution and 1.2 mm depth range in tissue at a frame rate of 400 fps was demonstrated.