title: Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography for Clinical Gastroenterology.
abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a real-time optical imaging technique that is similar in principle to ultrasonography, but employs light instead of sound waves and allows depth-resolved images with near-microscopic resolution. Endoscopic OCT allows the evaluation of broad-field and subsurface areas and can be used ancillary to standard endoscopy, narrow band imaging, chromoendoscopy, magnification endoscopy, and confocal endomicroscopy. This review article will provide an overview of the clinical utility of endoscopic OCT in the gastrointestinal tract and of recent achievements using state-of-the-art endoscopic 3D-OCT imaging systems.
authors: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. johann.tsai@alum.mit.edu.
authors: Tsung-Han
authors: TH
authors: Tsai
authors: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. jgfuji@mit.edu.
authors: James G
authors: JG
authors: Fujimoto
authors: Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. hmashimo@hms.harvard.edu.
authors: Hiroshi
authors: H
authors: Mashimo
keywords: Barrett’s esophagus; endoscopic imaging; inflammatory bowel disease; optical biopsy; optical coherence tomography