Spectral-domain OCT with dual illumination and interlaced detection for simultaneous anterior segment and retina imaging

Hyun Woo Jeong, Sang Won Lee, Beop Min Kim

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Abstract

We present Fourier-domain/spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (FD/SD-OCT) using a single spectrometer with dual illumination and interlaced detection at 830 nmwhich can provide anterior segment and retinal tomograms simultaneously. Two orthogonal polarization components were used so that both parallel and focused beams could simultaneously be made incident on the eye. This configuration with a polarization-separated sample arm enables us to acquire images from the anterior segment and retina effectively with minimum loss of sample information. In the detector arma single spectrometer is illuminated via an ultrafast optical switch for interlaced detection. A graphical user interface (GUI) was built to control the optical switch for imaging the anterior segment and retina either simultaneously or individually. In additionwe implemented an off-pivot complex conjugate removal technique to double the imaging depth for anterior segment imaging. The axial resolution of our FD/SD-OCT system was measured to be ∼6.7 μm in airwhich corresponds to 4.9 μm in tissue (n = 1.35). The sensitivity was approximately 90 dB for both anterior segment and retina imaging when the acquisition speed was 35,000 A-scans per second and the depth position was near 120 μm from the zero-depth location. Finallywe demonstrated the feasibility of our system for simultaneous in vivo imaging of both the anterior segment and retina of a healthy human volunteer.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19148-19159
Number of pages12
JournalOptics Express
Volume20
Issue number17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012 Aug 13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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