title: [Optical coherence tomography and its application in ophthalmology].
abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a new imaging modality that provides cross-sectional tomographs of ocular structure in vivo. OCT system utilizes propagation of light through, and the time-of-flight delay of light reflected back from biological tissue to produce false-color images of microstructure. OCT has superior spatial resolution (10 microns) than other optical imaging instruments, and maybe achieved at arbitrary penetration depth in transparent tissue with a noncontact, noninvasive measurement. Such features make OCT useful for the early diagnosis, differential diagnosis and more sensitive monitoring of a variety of ocular abnormalities including glaucoma, retinal and anterior eye diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000869:Anterior Eye Segment / Q000473:pathology; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000175:diagnosis; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence