Purpose: the method described here allows for automatic calculation of the fundus pulse from interferometric measurements.
Method: a low intensity laser beam is coupled into the eye. Two strong reflections, one of the cornea and one of the retina, interfere on a high-speed complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor camera chip.
Biomed Tech (Berl)
March 2003
The here presented work describes a surface profiling technique, for which the term closed-loop optical coherence topography (CLOCT) was proposed [1]. This technique is a scanning beam, servo-locked variation of low-coherence interferometry. It allows for the sub-wavelength-resolution tracking of a weakly scattering macroscopic-scale surface with the absence of significant real-time computational overhead and is thus particularly well suited to real-time surface profiling of in vivo, macroscopic biological surfaces.
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March 2003
All over the world about 10 million people suffer from blindness caused by an opaque, irreversible damaged and inoperable cornea. Many of these people still have intact retinal functions. After Prof.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe and experimentally demonstrate a novel (to our knowledge) surface profiling technique, for which we propose the term closed-loop optical coherence topography. This technique is a scanning beam, servo-locked variation of low-coherence interferometry. It allows for the sub-wavelength-resolution tracking of a weakly scattering macroscopic-scale surface, with the surface profile being directly output by the controlling electronics.
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