Optical reflection tomography along the the geometrical thickness toward in vivo imaging of biological tissue

Author

Ohmi, M. ; Kurata, T. ; Haruna, M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Allied Health Sci., Osaka Univ., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

15-19 July 2001

Abstract

Very recently, we proposed optical reflection tomography along the geometrical thickness by combination of OCT and confocal reflection tomography (CRT). In order to apply this novel optical reflection tomography for clinical diagnoses, image quality of CRT should be comparable to that of OCT. In this paper, we describe improvement of the dynamic range of light signal detection of CRT. An in vivo CRT image of biological tissue is also presented as well as an OCT images.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomedical imaging; light interferometry; light reflection; optical signal detection; optical tomography; OCT confocal reflection tomography; ballistic photons; biological tissue; confocal optics; dynamic range; geometrical thickness; human nail; image quality; in vivo imaging; light interference; light signal detection; low coherence interferometer; optical reflection tomography; Biomedical optical imaging; Cathode ray tubes; In vivo; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Tomography;

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.2001.967872

Filename

967872