Methods and application areas of endoscopic optical coherence tomography

Zahid Yaqoob; Jigang Wu; Emily J. McDowell; Xin Heng; Changhuei Yang

doi:10.1117/1.2400214

1 November 2006 Methods and application areas of endoscopic optical coherence tomography

Zahid Yaqoob, Jigang Wu, Emily J. McDowell, Xin Heng, Changhuei Yang

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 11, Issue 6, 063001 (November 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2400214

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We review the current state of research in endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT). We first survey the range of available endoscopic optical imaging techniques. We then discuss the various OCT-based endoscopic methods that have thus far been developed. We compare the different endoscopic OCT methods in terms of their scan performance. Next, we examine the application range of endoscopic OCT methods. In particular, we look at the reported utility of the methods in digestive, intravascular, respiratory, urinary and reproductive systems. We highlight two additional applications—biopsy procedures and neurosurgery—where sufficiently compact OCT-based endoscopes can have significant clinical impacts.

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Zahid Yaqoob, Jigang Wu, Emily J. McDowell, Xin Heng, and Changhuei Yang "Methods and application areas of endoscopic optical coherence tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 11(6), 063001 (1 November 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2400214

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