Estimating the resolution of a commercial optical coherence tomography system with limited spatial sampling

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Woolliams, Peter D ^a   Tomlins, Peter H ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calibration; modulation transfer function; optical coherence tomography; phantom; point spread function; resolution

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MODULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; CLINICAL INVESTIGATION; COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS; CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; INSTRUMENT HARDWARES; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PHANTOM;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 79956157484     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/22/6/065502     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (30)

1. Huang D et al 1991 Optical coherence tomography Science 254 1178-81 (Pubitemid 21917444)
2. Fercher A F, Hitzenberger C K, Kamp G and El-Zaiat S Y 1995 Measurement of intraocular distances by backscattering spectral interferometry Opt. Commun. 117 43-8
3. Huber R, Adler D C and Fujimoto J G 2006 Buffered Fourier domain mode locking: unidirectional swept laser sources for optical coherence tomography imaging at 370,000 lines/s Opt. Lett. 31 2975-7 (Pubitemid 44664580)
4. Choma M A, Sarunic M V, Yang C and Izatt J A 2003 Sensitivity advantage of swept source and Fourier domain optical coherence tomography Opt. Express 11 2183-9
5. Leitgeb R, Hitzenberger C K and Fercher A F 2003 Performance of Fourier domain vs. time domain optical coherence tomography Opt. Express 11 889-94
6. Wojtkowski M 2010 High-speed optical coherence tomography: basics and applications Appl. Opt. 49 D30-61
7. Holmes J 2009 OCT technology development: Where are we now? a commercial perspective J. Biophoton. 2 347-52
8. EUR-Lex-31993L0042-EN.. Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices, available at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/ LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31993L0042:EN:HTML
9. Cheng M 2003 Medical Device Regulations: Global Overview and Guiding Principles (Geneva: World Health Organization)
10. Gaskill J D 1978 Linear Systems, Fourier Transforms, and Optics (New York: Wiley)
11. Izatt J A, Hee M R, Owen G M, Swanson E A and Fujimoto J G 1994 Optical coherence microscopy in scattering media Opt. Lett. 19 590-2
12. van Leeuwen T G, Faber D J and Aalders M C 2003 Measurement of the axial point spread function in scattering media using single-mode fiber-based optical coherence tomography IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9 227-33
13. Faber D, van der Meer F, Aalders M and van Leeuwen T 2004 Quantitative measurement of attenuation coefficients of weakly scattering media using optical coherence tomography Opt. Express 12 4353-65
14. Tomlins P H, Ferguson R A, Hart C and Woolliams P D 2009 Point-spread function phantoms for optical coherence tomography NPL Report OP 2 National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK
15. Agrawal A, Pfefer T J, Gilani N and Drezek R 2010 Three-dimensional characterization of optical coherence tomography point spread functions with a nanoparticle-embedded phantom Opt. Lett. 35 2269-71
16. Woolliams P D, Ferguson R A, Hart C, Grimwood A and Tomlins P H 2010 Spatially deconvolved optical coherence tomography Appl. Opt. 49 2014-21
17. Ralston T S, Marks D L, Carney P S and Boppart S A 2006 Inverse scattering for optical coherence tomography J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23 1027-37
18. Akcay C, Parrein P and Rolland J P 2002 Estimation of longitudinal resolution in optical coherence imaging Appl. Opt. 41 5256-62 (Pubitemid 35011762)
19. Akcay A C, Rolland J P and Eichenholz J M 2003 Spectral shaping to improve the point spread function in optical coherence tomography Opt. Lett. 28 1921-3
20. Murali S, Meemon P, Kye-Sung L, Kuhn W P, Thompson K P and Rolland J P 2010 Assessment of a liquid lens enabled in vivo optical coherence microscope Appl. Opt. 49 D145-56
21. Born M and Wolf E 1980 Principles of Optics 6th edn (Oxford: Pergamon)
22. Kimura S and Wilson T 1991 Confocal scanning optical microscope using single-mode fiber for signal detection Appl. Opt. 30 2143-50
23. Giniünus L, Juskaitis R and Shatalin S V 1991 Scanning fibre-optic microscope Electron. Lett. 27 724-6 (Pubitemid 21652992)
24. Min G, Sheppard C J R and Gan X 1991 Image formation in a fiber-optical confocal scanning microscope J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8 1755-61
25. Schmitt J M and Knüttel A 1997 Model of optical coherence tomography of heterogeneous tissue J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14 1231-42 (Pubitemid 127573892)
26. Thrane L, Yura H T and Andersen P E 2000 Analysis of optical coherence tomography systems based on the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17 484-90
27. Dorrer C, Belabas N, Jean-Pierre L and Joffre M 2000 Spectral resolution and sampling issues in Fourier-transform spectral interferometry J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17 1795-802
28. Wang Z, Glazowski C E and Zavislan J M 2007 Modulation transfer function measurement of scanning reflectance microscopes J. Biomed. Opt. 12 051802-6
29. Hastie T J and Tibshirani R J 1990 Generalized Additive Models (New York: Chapman and Hall)
30. Shaw M, Hall S, Knox S, Stevens R and Paterson C 2010 Characterization of deformable mirrors for spherical aberration correction in optical sectioning microscopy Opt. Express 18 6900-13