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5 March 2021 Retinal curvature correction with coherence gate shaping for full-field OCT high-resolution retinal imaging over a wide field-of-view
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Abstract
Allying high-resolution with a large field-of-view (FOV) is of great importance in the fields of biology and medicine, but particularly challenging when imaging non-flat living samples such as the retina. Indeed, high-resolution is normally achieved with adaptive optics (AO) and scanning methods, which considerably reduce the useful FOV and increase the system complexity. Here, we introduce coherence gate shaping for FF-OCT, to optically shape the coherence gate geometry to match the retinal curvature, thus achieving a larger FOV than previously possible. Using this instrument, we obtained high-resolution images of photoreceptors close to the foveal center without AO and with a 1x1m² FOV. This novel advance facilitates the extraction of photoreceptor-based biomarkers and 4D monitoring of individual photoreceptors. We compare our findings with AO-assisted ophthalmoscopes, highlighting the potential of FF-OCT, as a compact system, to become a routine clinical imaging technique.
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Pedro Mecê, Kassandra Groux, Jules Scholler, Kate Grieve, and Claude Boccara "Retinal curvature correction with coherence gate shaping for full-field OCT high-resolution retinal imaging over a wide field-of-view", Proc. SPIE 11630, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXV, 116300C (5 March 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2576687
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KEYWORDS
Retinal scanning

Coherence (optics)

Optical coherence tomography

Adaptive optics

Cameras

Microscopes

Retina

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