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13 August 2019 Optical coherence tomography-guided dynamic focusing for combined optical and mechanical scanning multimodal photoacoustic microscopy
Arash Dadkhah, Shuliang Jiao
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Abstract

To achieve fast imaging and large field of view (FOV), we improved our multimodal imaging system, which integrated optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and confocal fluorescence microscopy in one platform, by combining optical scanning with mechanical scanning. To ensure good focusing of the objective lens over all the imaged area, we employed OCT-guided dynamic focusing. Different from our previous point-by-point dynamic focusing, we employed an area-by-area focusing adjustment strategy, in which each fast optical scanning area has a fixed focusing depth. We have demonstrated the performance of the system by imaging biological samples ex vivo (plant leaf) and in vivo (mouse ear). The system has achieved uniform resolution in an FOV of 10  mm  ×  10  mm with an imaging time of about 5 min.

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Arash Dadkhah and Shuliang Jiao "Optical coherence tomography-guided dynamic focusing for combined optical and mechanical scanning multimodal photoacoustic microscopy," Journal of Biomedical Optics 24(12), 121906 (13 August 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.24.12.121906
Received: 30 May 2019; Accepted: 29 July 2019; Published: 13 August 2019
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KEYWORDS
Optical coherence tomography

Imaging systems

Objectives

Optical scanning

Transducers

Multimodal imaging

3D image processing

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