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Extended axial imaging range, widefield swept source optical coherence tomography angiography
Author(s) -
Liu Gangjun,
Yang Jianlong,
Wang Jie,
Li Yan,
Zang Pengxiao,
Jia Yali,
Huang David
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201600325
Subject(s) - optics , optical coherence tomography , materials science , pixel , physics , image resolution
We developed a high‐speed, swept source OCT system for widefield OCT angiography (OCTA) imaging. The system has an extended axial imaging range of 6.6 mm. An electrical lens is used for fast, automatic focusing. The recently developed split‐spectrum amplitude and phase‐gradient angiography allow high‐resolution OCTA imaging with only two B‐scan repetitions. An improved post‐processing algorithm effectively removed trigger jitter artifacts and reduced noise in the flow signal. We demonstrated high contrast 3 mm×3 mm OCTA image with 400×400 pixels acquired in 3 seconds and high‐definition 8 mm×6 mm and 12 mm×6 mm OCTA images with 850×400 pixels obtained in 4 seconds. A widefield 8 mm×11 mm OCTA image is produced by montaging two 8 mm×6 mm scans. An ultra‐widefield (with a maximum of 22 mm along both vertical and horizontal directions) capillary‐resolution OCTA image is obtained by montaging six 12 mm×6 mm scans.