Optical coherence tomography for whole eye segment imaging

• DOI: 10.1364/oe.20.006109
• Publication Date: 2012-02-29T19:29:02Z
• Authors: Cuixia Dai; Chuanqing Zhou; Shanhui Fan; Zhe Chen; Xinyu Chai; Qiushi Ren; Shuliang Jiao
• Keywords: Equipment Failure Analysis; Ophthalmoscopes; 0103 physical sciences; Humans; Reproducibility of Results; Equipment Design; Eye; Image Enhancement; Sensitivity and Specificity; 01 natural sciences; Tomography, Optical Coherence

We proposed a dual focus dual channel spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) for simultaneous imaging of the whole eye segments from cornea to the retina. By using dual channels the system solved the problem of limited imaging depth of SD-OCT. By using dual focus the system solved the problem of simultaneous light focusing on the anterior segment of the eye and the retina. Dual focusing was achieved by adjusting the collimating lenses so the divergence of the two probing beams was tuned to make them focused at different depth in the eye. We further achieved full range complex (FRC) SD-OCT in one channel to increase the depth range for anterior segment imaging. The system was successfully tested by imaging a human eye in vivo.