Single-input polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography through a catheter

Intravascular polarimetry with catheter-based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) complements the high-resolution structural tomograms of OCT with morphological contrast available through polarimetry. Its clinical translation has been complicated by the need for modification...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Jones, Georgia L., Xiong, Qiaozhou, Liu, Xinyu, Bouma, Brett E., Villiger, Martin
مؤلفون آخرون: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2023
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171572
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المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University
اللغة: English
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الملخص:Intravascular polarimetry with catheter-based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) complements the high-resolution structural tomograms of OCT with morphological contrast available through polarimetry. Its clinical translation has been complicated by the need for modification of conventional OCT hardware to enable polarimetric measurements. Here, we present a signal processing method to reconstruct the polarization properties of tissue from measurements with a single input polarization state, bypassing the need for modulation or multiplexing of input states. Our method relies on a polarization symmetry intrinsic to round-trip measurements and uses the residual spectral variation of the polarization states incident on the tissue to avoid measurement ambiguities. We demonstrate depth-resolved birefringence and optic axis orientation maps reconstructed from in-vivo data of human coronary arteries. We validate our method through comparison with conventional dual-input state measurements and find a mean cumulative retardance error of 13.2deg without observable bias. The 95% limit of agreement between depth-resolved birefringence is 2.80 · 10-4, which is less than the agreement between two repeat pullbacks of conventional PS-OCT (3.14 · 10-4), indicating that the two methods can be used interchangeably. The hardware simplification arising from using a single input state may be decisive in realizing the potential of polarimetric measurements for assessing coronary atherosclerosis in clinical practice.