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"Joint aperture detection for speckle reduction and increased collection efficiency in ophthalmic MHz OCT" Thomas Klein, Raphael André, Wolfgang Wieser, Tom Pfeiffer, and Robert HuberBiomedical Optics Express, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 619-634 (2013) Abstract: Joint-aperture optical coherence tomography (JA-OCT) is an angle-resolved OCT method, in which illumination from an active channel is simultaneously probed by several passive channels. JA-OCT increases the collection efficiency and effective sensitivity of the OCT system without increasing the power on the sample. Additionally, JA-OCT provides angular scattering information about the sample in a single acquisition, so the OCT imaging speed is not reduced. Thus, JA-OCT is especially suitable for ultra high speed in-vivo imaging. JA-OCT is compared to other angle-resolved techniques, and the relation between joint aperture imaging, adaptive optics, coherent and incoherent compounding is discussed. We present angle-resolved imaging of the human retina at an axial scan rate of 1.68 MHz, and demonstrate the benefits of JA-OCT: Speckle reduction, signal increase and suppression of specular and parasitic reflections. Moreover, in the future JA-OCT may allow for the reconstruction of the full Doppler vector and tissue discrimination by analysis of the angular scattering dependence. BMO authors (in alphabetic order): Raphael André Robert Huber Thomas Klein Tom Pfeiffer Wolfgang Wieser Assoziierte Projekte: Optical Coherent Ranging and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT): Imaging and profilometry with rapidly frequency swept laser sources Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML): Spectral mode locking in optics and applications HTML-Version  WWW-Version |