Optical coherence tomography with online visualization of more than seven rendered volumes per second

J Biomed Opt. 2010 Mar-Apr;15(2):026014. doi: 10.1117/1.3314898.

Abstract

Nearly real-time visualization of 3-D volumes is crucial for the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) during microsurgery. With an ultrahigh speed spectral domain OCT coupled to a surgical microscope, on-line display of 7.2 rendered volumes at 87 megapixels per second is demonstrated. Calculating the A-scans from the spectra is done on a quad-core personal computer (PC), while dedicated software for the 3-D rendering is executed on a high performance video card. Imaging speed is practically only limited by the readout of the camera. First experiments show the feasibility of real-time 3-D OCT for guided interventions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / instrumentation*
  • Microsurgery / instrumentation*
  • Online Systems
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation*