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Frontiers in Biophotonics for Translational Medicine pp 161–208Cite as

High Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography for Bio-Imaging

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a low-coherence interferometry based bio-imaging technology. It has attracted extensive research interests in recent years for its non-invasive, high-speed and high-resolution properties. Numerous schemes for improving OCT resolutions have been demonstrated in literature. This chapter gives a comprehensive review of the recent developments of spectral domain (SD)-OCT systems with either high axial-resolution or lateral resolution, and then highlights the wide applications of such high-resolution OCT systems in biomedical imaging process. The influences of high-resolution OCT systems towards translational medicine are also discussed.

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Jianhua Mo is supported in part by Soochow University, China (Startup grant: Jianhua Mo) and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (SBK2014043010). Linbo Liu is supported in part by the Nanyang Technological University (Startup grant: Linbo Liu), National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF2013NRF-POC001-021), National Medical Research Council Singapore (NMRC/CBRG/0036/2013), Ministry of Education Singapore (MOE2013-T2-2-107).

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Mo, J., Yu, X., Liu, L. (2016). High Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography for Bio-Imaging. In: Olivo, M., Dinish, U. (eds) Frontiers in Biophotonics for Translational Medicine. Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, vol 3. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-627-0_6

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