Spectrally-encoded color imaging.
Spectrally-encoded endoscopy (SEE) is a technique for ultraminiature endoscopy that encodes each spatial location on the sample with a different wavelength. One limitation of previous incarnations of SEE is that it inherently creates monochromatic images, since the spectral bandwidth is expended in the spatial encoding process. Here we present a spectrally-encoded imaging system that has color imaging capability. The new imaging system utilizes three distinct red, green, and blue spectral bands that are configured to illuminate the grating at different incident angles. By careful selection of the incident angles, the three spectral bands can be made to overlap on the sample. To demonstrate the method, a bench-top system was built, comprising a 2400-lpmm grating illuminated by three 525-microm-diameter beams with three different spectral bands. Each spectral band had a bandwidth of 75 nm, producing 189 resolvable points. A resolution target, color phantoms, and excised swine small intestine were imaged to validate the system's performance. The color SEE system showed qualitatively and quantitatively similar color imaging performance to that of a conventional digital camera.
Kang
DongKyun
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Harvard Medical School and Wellman center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Yelin
Dvir
D
Bouma
Brett E
BE
Tearney
Guillermo J
GJ
D000818:Animals; D003116:Color; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology; D007834:Lasers; D015233:Models, Statistical; D055100:Optical Fibers; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D013552:Swine
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