Analysis of image features for the characterization of skin optical clearing kinetics performed on in vivo and ex vivo human skin using Linefield-Confocal Optical Coherence Tomography (LC-OCT)

Author(s):  
Sophie Tran ◽  
Sergey Zaytsev ◽  
Viktoriya Charykova ◽  
Munira Yusupova ◽  
Alexey Bashkatov ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 245 (18) ◽  
pp. 1629-1636
Author(s):  
Ruiming Kong ◽  
Wenjuan Wu ◽  
Rui Qiu ◽  
Lei Gao ◽  
Fengxian Du ◽  
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Optical coherence tomography has become an indispensable diagnostic tool in ophthalmology for imaging the retina and the anterior segment of the eye. However, the imaging depth of optical coherence tomography is limited by light attenuation in tissues due to optical scattering and absorption. In this study of rabbit eye both ex vivo and in vivo, optical coherence tomography imaging depth of the anterior and posterior segments of the eye was extended by using optical clearing agents to reduce multiple scattering. The sclera, the iris, and the ciliary body were clearly visualized by direct application of glycerol at an incision on the conjunctiva, and the posterior boundary of sclera and even the deeper tissues were detected by submerging the posterior segment of eye in glycerol solution ex vivo or by retro-bulbar injection of glycerol in vivo. The ex vivo rabbit eyes recovered to their original state in 60 s after saline-wash treatment, and normal optical coherence tomography images of the posterior segment of the sample eyes proved the self-recovery of in vivo performance. Signal intensities of optical coherence tomography images obtained before and after glycerol treatment were compared to analysis of the effect of optical clearing. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study for imaging depth extension of optical coherence tomography in both the anterior and posterior segments of eye by using optical clearing agents.


2011 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
WANRONG GAO ◽  
PENG LEE ◽  
XIANLING ZHANG

Scattering coefficients of human skin in vivo with and without vitiligo were measured with optical coherence tomography (OCT). The experimental results show that there exist significant difference between the scattering coefficient of the epidermis of in vivo human skin with and without vitiligo disease. The results may be helpful for quantitatively diagnosing or evaluating the treatment of the disease.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 034001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pin-Chieh Huang ◽  
Paritosh Pande ◽  
Ryan L. Shelton ◽  
Frank Joa ◽  
Dave Moore ◽  
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The Analyst ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 145 (4) ◽  
pp. 1445-1456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Placzek ◽  
Eliana Cordero Bautista ◽  
Simon Kretschmer ◽  
Lara M. Wurster ◽  
Florian Knorr ◽  
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Characterization of bladder biopsies, using a combined fiber optic probe-based optical coherence tomography and Raman spectroscopy imaging system that allows a large field-of-view imaging and detection and grading of cancerous bladder lesions.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
En Li ◽  
Shuichi Makita ◽  
Young-Joo Hong ◽  
Deepa Kasaragod ◽  
Yoshiaki Yasuno

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peijun Tang ◽  
Mitchell A. Kirby ◽  
Nhan Le ◽  
Yuandong Li ◽  
Nicole Zeinstra ◽  
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AbstractCollagen organization plays an important role in maintaining structural integrity and determining tissue function. Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PSOCT) is a promising noninvasive three-dimensional imaging tool for mapping collagen organization in vivo. While PSOCT systems with multiple polarization inputs have demonstrated the ability to visualize depth-resolved collagen organization, systems, which use a single input polarization state have not yet demonstrated sufficient reconstruction quality. Herein we describe a PSOCT based polarization state transmission model that reveals the depth-dependent polarization state evolution of light backscattered within a birefringent sample. Based on this model, we propose a polarization state tracing method that relies on a discrete differential geometric analysis of the evolution of the polarization state in depth along the Poincare sphere for depth-resolved birefringent imaging using only one single input polarization state. We demonstrate the ability of this method to visualize depth-resolved myocardial architecture in both healthy and infarcted rodent hearts (ex vivo) and collagen structures responsible for skin tension lines at various anatomical locations on the face of a healthy human volunteer (in vivo).


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