title: Real-time eye motion correction in phase-resolved OCT angiography with tracking SLO.
abstract: In phase-resolved OCT angiography blood flow is detected from phase changes in between A-scans that are obtained from the same location. In ophthalmology, this technique is vulnerable to eye motion. We address this problem by combining inter-B-scan phase-resolved OCT angiography with real-time eye tracking. A tracking scanning laser ophthalmoscope (TSLO) at 840 nm provided eye tracking functionality and was combined with a phase-stabilized optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) system at 1040 nm. Real-time eye tracking corrected eye drift and prevented discontinuity artifacts from (micro)saccadic eye motion in OCT angiograms. This improved the OCT spot stability on the retina and consequently reduced the phase-noise, thereby enabling the detection of slower blood flows by extending the inter-B-scan time interval. In addition, eye tracking enabled the easy compounding of multiple data sets from the fovea of a healthy volunteer to create high-quality eye motion artifact-free angiograms. High-quality images are presented of two distinct layers of vasculature in the retina and the dense vasculature of the choroid. Additionally we present, for the first time, a phase-resolved OCT angiogram of the mesh-like network of the choriocapillaris containing typical pore openings.
authors.affiliation: Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam,  Netherlands.
authors.forename: Boy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Braaf
authors.forename: Kari V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Vienola
authors.forename: Christy K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Sheehy
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Koenraad A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Vermeer
authors.forename: Pavan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tiruveedhula
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Arathorn
authors.forename: Austin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roorda
authors.forename: Johannes F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: de Boer
keywords: (110.0110) Imaging systems; (110.4500) Optical coherence tomography; (170.3880) Medical and biological imaging; (170.4470) Ophthalmology; (280.2490) Flow diagnostics