title: Secure fingerprint identification based on structural and microangiographic optical coherence tomography.
abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) allows noncontact acquisition of fingerprints and hence is a highly promising technology in the field of biometrics. OCT can be used to acquire both structural and microangiographic images of fingerprints. Microangiographic OCT derives its contrast from the blood flow in the vasculature of viable skin tissue, and microangiographic fingerprint imaging is inherently immune to fake fingerprint attack. Therefore, dual-modality (structural and microangiographic) OCT imaging of fingerprints will enable more secure acquisition of biometric data, which has not been investigated before. Our study on fingerprint identification based on structural and microangiographic OCT imaging is, we believe, highly innovative. In this study, we performed OCT imaging study for fingerprint acquisition, and demonstrated the capability of dual-modality OCT imaging for the identification of fake fingerprints.
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Farzana
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zaki
authors.forename: Yahui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Qiongdan
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Mei
authors.forename: Jiangjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply; D006801:Humans; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*