Pulsed magneto-motive optical coherence tomography for remote cellular imaging

Opt Lett. 2012 Sep 1;37(17):3714-6. doi: 10.1364/OL.37.003714.

Abstract

We developed pulsed magneto-motive optical coherence tomography (PMM-OCT) to reduce environmental temperature in the measurement volume and to expand the effective magnetic field distance from a pulse source. The proposed PMM-OCT system consisted of a spectral-domain OCT system and a customarily designed electrical pulse generator. The enhanced magnetic field allowed the proposed system to be able to image magnetically labeled cells in a distance as far as 30 mm away from the pulse generator. As an easy and sensitive approach, our PMM-OCT may be beneficially applied to a molecular-level imaging systems.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Magnetic Fields*
  • Molecular Imaging / instrumentation
  • Molecular Imaging / methods*
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Temperature
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*