Optical coherence microscopy in 1700-nm spectral band for high-resolution deep-tissue imaging (Conference Presentation)

Masahito Yamanaka; Tatsuhiro Teranishi; Hiroyuki Kawagoe; Norihiko Nishizawa

doi:10.1117/12.2254772

19 April 2017 Optical coherence microscopy in 1700-nm spectral band for high-resolution deep-tissue imaging (Conference Presentation)

Masahito Yamanaka, Tatsuhiro Teranishi, Hiroyuki Kawagoe, Norihiko Nishizawa

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Proceedings Volume 10053, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXI; 100531X (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254772
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Optical coherence microscopy (OCM) is a high-resolution imaging technique based on optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy. The recent studies on OCM operating at 800-1300 nm spectral region have shown that OCM enables to visualize micrometer- or sub-micrometer-scale structures of animal tissues. Although OCMs offers such high-resolution label-free imaging capability of animal tissues, the imaging depth was restricted by multiple light scattering and light absorption of water in samples. Here, for high-resolution deep-tissue imaging, we developed an OCM in the 1700-nm spectral band by using a supercontinuum (SC) source with a Gaussian-like spectral shape in the wavelength region. Recently, it has been reported that the 1700-nm spectral band is a promising choice for enhancing the imaging depth in the observation of turbid scattering tissues because of the low attenuation coefficient of light. In this study, to clarify that the 1700-nm OCM has a potential to realize the enhanced imaging depth, we compared the attenuation of the signal-to-noise ratio between the 1700-nm and 1300-nm OCM imaging of a mouse brain under the same signal detection sensitivity condition. The result shows that the 1700-nm OCM enables us to achieve the enhanced imaging depth. In this 1700-nm OCM, we also confirmed that the lateral resolution of 1.3 µm and axial resolution of 2.8 µm in tissue were achieved.

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Masahito Yamanaka, Tatsuhiro Teranishi, Hiroyuki Kawagoe, and Norihiko Nishizawa "Optical coherence microscopy in 1700-nm spectral band for high-resolution deep-tissue imaging (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10053, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXI, 100531X (19 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254772

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Tissues

Light scattering

Optical coherence microscopy

Signal attenuation

Optical coherence tomography

Absorption

Confocal microscopy

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