Rapid radial optical coherence tomography image acquisition

J Biomed Opt. 2013 Mar;18(3):036004. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.3.036004.

Abstract

We demonstrate how compressive sampling can be used to expedite volumetric optical coherence tomography (OCT) image acquisition. We propose a novel method to interpolate OCT volumetric images from data acquired by radial B-scans in the Cartesian coordinate system. Due to the inherent polar symmetry in the human eye, the (r, θ, z) coordinate system provides a natural domain to perform the interpolation. We demonstrate that the method has minimal effect on image quality even when up to 88% of the data is not acquired. The potential outcome of this work could lead to significant reductions in OCT volume acquisition time in clinical practice.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Eye / anatomy & histology
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*