• DocumentCode
    1942630
  • Title

    Imaging of the oral cancer tissues with optical coherence tomography using self-phase modulation in fiber for broadband source generation

  • Author

    I-Jen Hsu ; Chih-Wei Lu ; Shin-Ming Lin ; Yang, C.C. ; Chun-Pin Chiang ; Chii-Wann Lin ; Yean-Woei Kiang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    15-19 July 2001
  • Abstract
    An optical coherence tomography system of 5 /spl mu/m in depth resolution was built for oral cancer study. The broadband source was generated through self-phase modulation of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser in single-mode fiber.
  • Keywords
    biomedical imaging; cancer; image resolution; laser applications in medicine; optical tomography; self-phase modulation; Michelson interferometer; broadband source generation; cavity structures; femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser; fiber self-phase modulation; high lateral resolution; human oral mucosa; morphological images; optical coherence tomography; oral cancer tissue imaging; single-mode fiber; Biomedical optical imaging; Cancer; Fiber nonlinear optics; Light sources; Nonlinear optics; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Tomography; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chiba, Japan
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6738-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.967867
  • Filename
    967867