Intravascular optical coherence tomography imaging at 3200 frames per second

Opt Lett. 2013 May 15;38(10):1715-7. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.001715.

Abstract

We demonstrate intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging with frame rate up to 3.2 kHz (192,000 rpm scanning). This was achieved by using a custom-built catheter in which the circumferential scanning was actuated by a 1.0 mm diameter synchronous motor. The OCT system, with an imaging depth of 3.7 mm (in air), is based on a Fourier domain mode locked laser operating at an A-line rate of 1.6 MHz. The diameter of the catheter is 1.1 mm at the tip. Ex vivo images of human coronary artery (78.4 mm length) were acquired at a pullback speed of 100 mm/s. True 3D volumetric imaging of the entire artery, with dense and isotropic sampling in all dimensions, was performed in <1 second acquisition time.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Catheters
  • Coronary Vessels*
  • Fourier Analysis
  • Heart / physiology
  • Humans
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*