Optical coherent tomography (OCT) has enabled clinical applications ranging from ophthalmology to cardiology that revolutionized in vivo medical diagnostics in the last few decades, and a variety of endoscopic probes have been developed in order to meet the needs of various endoscopic OCT imaging. We propose a passive driven intravascular optical coherent tomography (IV-OCT) probe in this paper. Instead of using any electrically driven scanning device, the probe makes use of the kinetic energy of the fluid that flushes away the blood during the intravascular optical coherence tomography imaging. The probe converts it into the rotational kinetic energy of the propeller, and the rotation of the rectangular prism mounted on the propeller shaft enables the scanning of the beam. The probe is low cost, and enables unobstructed stable circumferential scanning over 360 deg. The experimental results show that the probe scanning speed can exceed 100 rotations per second (rps). Spectral-domain OCT imaging of a phantom and porcine cardiac artery are demonstrated with axial resolution of 13.6 μm, lateral resolution of 22 μm, and sensitivity of 101.7 dB. We present technically the passively driven IV-OCT probe in full detail and discuss how to optimize the probe in further.
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