Extended in vivo anterior eye-segment imaging with full-range complex spectral domain optical coherence tomography

J Biomed Opt. 2009 Sep-Oct;14(5):050501. doi: 10.1117/1.3213569.

Abstract

We demonstrate the capability of full-range complex (FRC) spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) to image the anterior eye segment from the cornea to the posterior surface of the lens. With an adapted spectrometer design, we developed a SD-OCT system with an extended normal (single half-space) depth range of 7 mm (in air). This OCT-intrinsic depth range was doubled with a FRC technique. We demonstrate the performance of our OCT system by imaging the whole anterior segment of a healthy human eye in vivo.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anterior Eye Segment / cytology*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Humans
  • Image Enhancement / instrumentation*
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / instrumentation*
  • Ophthalmoscopes*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation*