title: Polarization-sensitive spectral-domain optical coherence tomography using a multi-line single camera spectrometer.
abstract: We describe a polarization sensitive spectral domain optical coherence tomography technique based on a single camera spectrometer that includes a multiplexed custom grating, camera lenses, and a high-speed three-line CCD camera. Two orthogonally polarized beams could be separately taken by two lines of the camera as a result of vertically different incident angles. The system could provide the imaging capabilities of a full camera speed and increased measurable depth. The proposed optical coherence tomography system could make a distinction between the normal muscle and cancerous tissue from the chest of a DSred GFP mouse and the OCT images were compared with those of in vivo confocal microscopy.
authors.affiliation: Nano-Opto-Mechatronics Lab., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea. feloveyou@kaist.ac.kr
authors.forename: Cheol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: MyoungKi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: DaeGab
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gweon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D009132:Muscles / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins