Ling Yuye, Yao Xinwen, Hendon Christine P
Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 500 W 120th St., New York, New York 10027, USA.
Biomed Opt Express. 2017 Jul 18;8(8):3687-3699. doi: 10.1364/BOE.8.003687. eCollection 2017 Aug 1.
The rapid advance in swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) technology has enabled exciting new applications in elastography, angiography, and vibrometry, where both high temporal resolution and phase stability are highly sought-after. In this paper, we present a 200 kHz SS-OCT system centered at 1321 nm by using an electro-optically tuned swept source. The proposed system's performance was fully characterized, and it possesses superior phase stability (0.0012% scanning variability and <1 ns timing jitter) that is promising for many phase-sensitive imaging applications. Biological experiments were demonstrated within human tracheobronchial ciliated epithelium where both the ciliary motion and ciliary beat frequency were successfully extracted.
扫频光学相干断层扫描(SS-OCT)技术的迅速发展,使其在弹性成像、血管造影和振动测量等领域有了令人兴奋的新应用,这些领域都对高时间分辨率和相位稳定性有很高的要求。在本文中,我们通过使用电光调谐扫频光源,展示了一个中心波长为1321 nm、频率为200 kHz的SS-OCT系统。该系统的性能得到了全面表征,具有出色的相位稳定性(扫描变化率为0.0012%,定时抖动小于1 ns),这对许多相位敏感成像应用很有前景。我们在人气管支气管纤毛上皮组织中进行了生物学实验,成功提取了纤毛运动和纤毛搏动频率。