Northwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Evanston, Illinois, United States.
Opticent Health, Evanston, Illinois, United States.
J Biomed Opt. 2017 Oct;22(12):1-8. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.22.12.121702.
Retinal oxygen metabolic rate can be effectively measured by visible-light optical coherence tomography (vis-OCT), which simultaneously quantifies oxygen saturation and blood flow rate in retinal vessels through spectroscopic analysis and Doppler measurement, respectively. Doppler OCT relates phase variation between sequential A-lines to the axial flow velocity of the scattering medium. The detectable phase shift is between -π and π due to its periodicity, which limits the maximum measurable unambiguous velocity without phase unwrapping. Using shorter wavelengths, vis-OCT is more vulnerable to phase ambiguity since flow induced phase variation is linearly related to the center wavenumber of the probing light. We eliminated the need for phase unwrapping using spectroscopic Doppler analysis. We split the whole vis-OCT spectrum into a series of narrow subbands and reconstructed vis-OCT images to extract corresponding Doppler phase shifts in all the subbands. Then, we quantified flow velocity by analyzing subband-dependent phase shift using linear regression. In the phantom experiment, we showed that spectroscopic Doppler analysis extended the measurable absolute phase shift range without conducting phase unwrapping. We also tested this method to quantify retinal blood flow in rodents in vivo.
视网膜氧代谢率可以通过可见光光学相干断层扫描(vis-OCT)有效地测量,该技术通过光谱分析和多普勒测量分别定量视网膜血管中的氧饱和度和血流速率。多普勒 OCT 将连续 A 线之间的相位变化与散射介质的轴向流速相关联。由于其周期性,可检测到的相移在 -π 到 π 之间,这限制了无需相位解缠即可测量的最大可分辨速度。由于较短的波长,vis-OCT 更容易受到相位模糊的影响,因为流动引起的相位变化与探测光的中心波数呈线性关系。我们使用光谱多普勒分析消除了相位解缠的需要。我们将整个 vis-OCT 光谱分成一系列窄的子带,并重建 vis-OCT 图像以提取所有子带中的相应多普勒相移。然后,我们通过使用线性回归分析子带相关的相移来定量血流速度。在体模实验中,我们表明,光谱多普勒分析扩展了可测量的绝对相移范围,而无需进行相位解缠。我们还测试了这种方法来定量体内啮齿动物的视网膜血流。