Thermo-elastic optical coherence tomography

Tianshi Wang, Tom Pfeiffer, Min Wu, Wolfgang Wieser, Gaetano Amenta, Wolfgang Draxinger, Antonius F.W. Van Der Steen, Robert Huber, Gijs Van Soest*

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    Abstract

    The absorption of nanosecond laser pulses induces rapid thermo-elastic deformation in tissue. A sub-micrometer scale displacement occurs within a few microseconds after the pulse arrival. In this Letter, we investigate the laser-induced thermo-elastic deformation using a 1.5 MHz phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. A displacement image can be reconstructed, which enables a new modality of phase-sensitive OCT, called thermo-elastic OCT. An analysis of the results shows that the optical absorption is a dominating factor for the displacement. Thermo-elastic OCT is capable of visualizing inclusions that do not appear on the structural OCT image, providing additional tissue type information.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)3466-3469
    Number of pages4
    JournalOptics Letters
    Volume42
    Issue number17
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2017

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