- 著者
- Makita Shuichi Jaillon Franck Yamanari Masahiro Yasuno Yoshiaki
- 出版者
- Optical Society of America
- 雑誌
- Optics Express (ISSN:10944087)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.30, no.2, pp.2681-2692, 2012-01
- 被引用文献数
- 6 3
Dual-beam-scan Doppler optical coherence angiography (DB-OCA) enables high-speed, high-sensitivity blood flow imaging. However, birefringence of biological tissues is an obstacle to vasculature imaging. Here, the influence of polarization and birefringence on DB-OCA imaging was analyzed. A DB-OCA system without birefringence artifact has been developed by introducing a Faraday rotator. The performance was confirmed in vitro using chicken muscle and in vivo using the human eye. Birefringence artifacts due to birefringent tissues were suppressed. Micro-vasculatures in the lamina cribrosa and nerve fiber layer of human eyes were visualized in vivo. High-speed and high-sensitivity micro-vasculature imaging involving birefringent tissues is available with polarization multiplexing DB-OCA.