High-resolution imaging of biological tissue with full-field optical coherence tomography

Yue Zhu; Wanrong Gao

doi:10.1117/12.2074285

9 March 2015 High-resolution imaging of biological tissue with full-field optical coherence tomography

Yue Zhu, Wanrong Gao

Proceedings Volume 9330, Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XXII; 93301H (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2074285
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A new full-field optical coherence tomography system with high-resolution has been developed for imaging of cells and tissues. Compared with other FF-OCT (Full-field optical coherence tomography, FF-OCT) systems illuminated with optical fiber bundle, the improved Köhler illumination arrangement with a halogen lamp was used in the proposed FF-OCT system. High numerical aperture microscopic objectives were used for imaging and a piezoelectric ceramic transducer (PZT) was used for phase-shifting. En-face tomographic images can be obtained by applying the five-step phase-shifting algorithm to a series of interferometric images which are recorded by a smart camera. Three-dimensional images can be generated from these tomographic images. Imaging of the chip of Intel Pentium 4 processor demonstrated the ultrahigh resolution of the system (lateral resolution is 0.8μm ), which approaches the theoretical resolution 0.7 μm× 0.5 μm (lateral × axial). En-face images of cells of onion show an excellent performance of the system in generating en-face images of biological tissues. Then, unstained pig stomach was imaged as a tissue and gastric pits could be easily recognized using FF-OCT system. Our study provides evidence for the potential ability of FFOCT in identifying gastric pits from pig stomach tissue. Finally, label-free and unstained ex vivo human liver tissues from both normal and tumor were imaged with this FFOCT system. The results show that the setup has the potential for medical diagnosis applications such liver cancer diagnosis.

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Yue Zhu and Wanrong Gao "High-resolution imaging of biological tissue with full-field optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 9330, Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XXII, 93301H (9 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2074285

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