title: Large-field high-speed polarization sensitive spectral domain OCT and its applications in ophthalmology.
abstract: We present a novel spectral domain polarization sensitive OCT system (PS-OCT) that operates at an A-scan rate of 70 kHz and supports scan angles of up to 40° × 40°. The high-speed imaging allows the acquisition of up to 1024 × 250 A-scans per 3D scan, which, together with the large field of view, considerably increases the informative value of the images. To demonstrate the excellent performance of the new PS-OCT system, we imaged several healthy volunteers and patients with various diseases such as glaucoma, AMD, Stargardt's disease, and albinism. The results are compared with clinically established methods such as scanning laser polarimetry and autofluorescence.
authors.affiliation: Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna,  Austria.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zotter
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pircher
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Torzicky
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baumann
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Futoshi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ritter
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schütze
authors.forename: Erich
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Götzinger
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Trasischker
authors.forename: Clemens
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vass
authors.forename: Ursula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schmidt-Erfurth
authors.forename: Christoph K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Hitzenberger