Simultaneous intensity, birefringence, and flow measurements with high-speed fiber-based optical coherence tomography

Opt Lett. 2002 Sep 1;27(17):1534-6. doi: 10.1364/ol.27.001534.

Abstract

We demonstrate that tissue structure, birefringence, and blood flow can be imaged simultaneously by use of techniques of polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and phase-resolved optical Doppler tomography. An efficient data-acquisition procedure is implemented that optimizes the concurrent processing and display of all three image types. Images of in vivo human skin acquired with a high-speed fiber-based system are presented.