title: Pulsed magneto-motive optical coherence tomography for remote cellular imaging.
abstract: We developed pulsed magneto-motive optical coherence tomography (PMM-OCT) to reduce environmental temperature in the measurement volume and to expand the effective magnetic field distance from a pulse source. The proposed PMM-OCT system consisted of a spectral-domain OCT system and a customarily designed electrical pulse generator. The enhanced magnetic field allowed the proposed system to be able to image magnetically labeled cells in a distance as far as 30 mm away from the pulse generator. As an easy and sensitive approach, our PMM-OCT may be beneficially applied to a molecular-level imaging systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-739, South Korea.
authors.forename: Jasung
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koo
authors.forename: Changho
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hyun Wook
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Yong Wook
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jeehyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Junghwan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oh
mesh_terms: D060526:Magnetic Fields; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D013696:Temperature; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*