Recent advances in transducers for intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging

C Peng, H Wu, S Kim, X Dai, X Jiang - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
As a well-known medical imaging methodology, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging
plays a critical role in diagnosis, treatment guidance and post-treatment assessment of …

Intravascular optical coherence tomography

BE Bouma, M Villiger, K Otsuka, WY Oh - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Shortly after the first demonstration of optical coherence tomography for imaging the
microstructure of the human eye, work began on developing systems and catheters suitable …

Endoscopic optical coherence tomography: technologies and clinical applications

MJ Gora, MJ Suter, GJ Tearney, X Li - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we review the current state of technology development and clinical
applications of endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT). Key design and …

PneumaOCT: Pneumatic optical coherence tomography endoscopy for targeted distortion-free imaging in tortuous and narrow internal lumens

T Zhang, S Yuan, C Xu, P Liu, HC Chang, SHC Ng… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The complex anatomy of internal luminal organs, like bronchioles, poses challenges for
endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT). These challenges include limited …

OCT-based velocimetry for blood flow quantification

B Braaf, MGO Gräfe, N Uribe-Patarroyo… - High resolution imaging …, 2019 - Springer
Current clinically available OCTA imaging methods are able to reliably distinguish retinal
regions of significant flow from static tissue by evaluating the backscattered OCT signal from …

Cycloid scanning for wide field optical coherence tomography endomicroscopy and angiography in vivo

K Liang, Z Wang, OO Ahsen, HC Lee, BM Potsaid… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Devices that perform wide field-of-view (FOV) precision optical scanning are important for
endoscopic assessment and diagnosis of luminal organ disease such as in …

Volumetric non-local-means based speckle reduction for optical coherence tomography

C Cuartas-Vélez, R Restrepo, BE Bouma… - Biomedical optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel tomographic non-local-means based despeckling technique, TNode, for
optical coherence tomography. TNode is built upon a weighting similarity criterion derived …

A novel synchronous micro motor for intravascular ultrasound imaging

J Peng, L Ma, X Li, H Tang, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is an important method for evaluating lumen
dimensions and guiding intervention. However, the current IVUS catheter using a proximal …

Endoscopic forward-viewing optical coherence tomography and angiography with MHz swept source

K Liang, OO Ahsen, Z Wang, HC Lee, W Liang… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT) instruments are mostly side viewing and
rely on at least one proximal scan, thus limiting accuracy of volumetric imaging and en face …

Signal-carrying speckle in optical coherence tomography: a methodological review on biomedical applications

VB Silva, D Andrade De Jesus, S Klein… - Journal of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Speckle has historically been considered a source of noise in coherent light
imaging. However, a number of works in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging have …