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En-face OCT imaging delivers slices in the tissue of coherence length thickness with an orientation similar to that of confocal microscopy. In the flying spot implementation, the phase modulation introduced by the transverse scanners may be exploited to generate en-face OCT images. New avenues opened by the en-face OCT are presented, such as the versatile operation in A, B, C scanning regimes, simultaneous OCT and confocal imaging and simultaneous OCT imaging at different depths. B-scan and C-scan images from different types of tissue are presented.

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Podoleanu, A. (2004). En-Face OCT Imaging. In: Tuchin, V.V. (eds) Handbook of Coherent Domain Optical Methods. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29989-0_16

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