Title :
Submicron optical coherence tomography of biological tissue using a thermal-light interferometer
Author :
Ohmi, Masato ; Kakimoto, Akihiro ; Haruna, Masamitsu
Author_Institution :
Course of Allied Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University 1-7, Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan TEL +81-6-6879-2576 FAX +81-6-6879-2469; ohmi@sahs.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
Abstract :
We demonstrate for the first time submicron OCT of biological tissue using a thermal-light interferometer. The coherence length of 0.8μm was successfully obtained by application of the voltage to a halogen lamp 1.5 times as large as the nominal one.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Biological tissues; Biomedical optical imaging; Lamps; Optical interferometry; Optical scattering; Spatial coherence; Tomography; Ultrafast optics; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9242-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569359
