Title :
Dynamic focus catheter design for endoscopic optical coherence tomography
Author :
Meemon, Panomsak ; Murali, Supraja ; Lee, Kye-Sung ; Rolland, Jannick
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando
Abstract :
To maintain high lateral resolution throughout depth scanning, a dynamically focusing catheter with a lateral resolution < 10 mum and a depth scanning range > 4 mm was designed without a mechanically re-focusing system.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; catheters; endoscopes; image resolution; lenses; medical image processing; optical focusing; optical tomography; depth scanning; dynamic focus catheter design; endoscopic optical coherence tomography; lateral resolution; Apertures; Catheters; Focusing; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; Lenses; Optical design; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382248
