Optical design of a dynamic focus catheter for high-resolution endoscopic optical coherence tomography

    Authors

    P. Meemon; K. S. Lee; S. Murali;J. Rolland

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Appl. Optics

    Keywords

    IN-VIVO; LENS; PROBE; Optics

    Abstract

    The optical system design of a dynamic focus endoscopic probe for optical coherence tomography is reported. The dynamic focus capability is based on a liquid lens technology that provides variable focus by changing its curvatures in response to an electric field variation. The effects of a cylindrical exit window present, in practice, for a catheter were accounted for. Degradation in image quality caused by this window was corrected to get diffraction limited imaging performance. As a result, the dynamically focusing catheter with a lateral resolution ranging from 4 to 6 mu m through an similar to 5 mm. imaging distance was designed without mechanically refocusing the system. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Applied Optics

    Volume

    47

    Issue/Number

    13

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    2452

    Last Page

    2457

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000256365000084

    ISSN

    1559-128X

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