Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2014 May 5;4(2):57-93. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics4020057.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a real-time optical imaging technique that is similar in principle to ultrasonography, but employs light instead of sound waves and allows depth-resolved images with near-microscopic resolution. Endoscopic OCT allows the evaluation of broad-field and subsurface areas and can be used ancillary to standard endoscopy, narrow band imaging, chromoendoscopy, magnification endoscopy, and confocal endomicroscopy. This review article will provide an overview of the clinical utility of endoscopic OCT in the gastrointestinal tract and of recent achievements using state-of-the-art endoscopic 3D-OCT imaging systems.
光学相干断层扫描(OCT)是一种实时光学成像技术,其原理类似于超声检查,但采用的是光而不是声波,并允许以近微观分辨率进行深度分辨成像。内镜 OCT 可用于评估大面积和深层区域,可作为标准内镜、窄带成像、色素内镜、放大内镜和共聚焦内镜的辅助手段。本文综述了内镜 OCT 在胃肠道中的临床应用,并介绍了最新的基于先进内镜 3D-OCT 成像系统的成就。