Dove prism based rotating dual beam bidirectional Doppler OCT

Cedric Blatter, Séverine Coquoz, Branislav Grajciar, Amardeep S.G. Singh, Marco Bonesi, René M. Werkmeister, Leopold Schmetterer, Rainer A. Leitgeb*

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Abstract

Traditional Doppler OCT is highly sensitive to motion artifacts due to the dependence on the Doppler angle. This limits its accuracy in clinical practice. To overcome this limitation, we use a bidirectional dual beam technique equipped with a novel rotating scanning scheme employing a Dove prism. The volume is probed from two distinct illumination directions with variable controlled incidence plane, allowing for reconstruction of the true flow velocity at arbitrary vessel orientations. The principle is implemented with Swept Source OCT at 1060nm with 100,000 A-Scans/s. We apply the system to resolve pulsatile retinal absolute blood velocity by performing segment scans around the optic nerve head and circumpapillary scan time series.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberA1188
Pages (from-to)1188-1203
Number of pages16
JournalBiomedical Optics Express
Volume4
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

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©2013 Optical Society of America.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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