Title :
Stationary scatterer filtering in spectral domain optical Doppler tomography
Author :
Ren, Hongwu ; Sun, Tao ; MacDonald, Daniel J. ; Cobb, Michael J. ; Li, Xingde
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Bioeng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Abstract :
We report a method for improving the accuracy in determining blood flow rate and small vessel size by implementing a delay line filter when processing real-time spectral domain optical coherence tomography images of flow.
Keywords :
Doppler effect; biomedical optical imaging; blood flow measurement; blood vessels; delay filters; eye; medical image processing; optical delay lines; optical tomography; Doppler flow velocity; blood flow rate; blood vessel size; delay line filter; human retina; image processing; optical coherence tomography; spectral domain optical Doppler tomography; stationary scatterer filtering; Biomedical optical imaging; Delay lines; Filtering; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Optical recording; Optical scattering; Tomography; (170.3340) Laser Doppler velocimetry; (170.3880) Medical and biological imaging; (170.4500) Optical coherence tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628303
