Current capabilities and challenges for optical coherence tomography as a high impact non-destructive imaging modality

Adrian Bradu; Manuel Marques; Sylvain Rivet; Adrian Podoleanu

doi:10.1117/12.2281502

10 August 2018 Current capabilities and challenges for optical coherence tomography as a high impact non-destructive imaging modality

Adrian Bradu, Manuel Marques, Sylvain Rivet, Adrian Podoleanu

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Proceedings Volume 10831, Seventh International Conference on Lasers in Medicine; 108310E (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2281502
Event: Seventh International Conference on Lasers in Medicine, 2017, Timisoara, Romania

Abstract

Non-destructive sensing and imaging within the body of materials is essential for quality control and very importantly for the development of new materials, equally for industrial and medical applications. Conventional non-destructive testing (NDT) methods, such us ultrasound, exhibit low imaging resolutions, of hundreds of microns and typically require a direct contact between the probe and the sample to be investigated. The speed at which the standard NDT methods performs is also quite restricted. The development of optical coherence tomography (OCT) applications in the field of NDT have grown immensely over the past years, offering faster, higher resolution images in a completely contactless environment with the sample. Optical Coherence Tomography brings a plethora of benefits to the current non-destructive methods. However, a multitude of challenges still need to be overcome to truly make OCT the technique of choice for NDT applications. In this paper, a short overview of the main challenging of producing cross-sectional, transversal and volumetric OCT images are presented with an emphasize on OCT’s capabilities and limitations in producing images in real-time. Real-time OCT images of various samples produced using the Master/Slave technique developed within the Applied Optics Group at the University of Kent are demonstrated.

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Adrian Bradu, Manuel Marques, Sylvain Rivet, and Adrian Podoleanu "Current capabilities and challenges for optical coherence tomography as a high impact non-destructive imaging modality", Proc. SPIE 10831, Seventh International Conference on Lasers in Medicine, 108310E (10 August 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2281502

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Optical coherence tomography

Nondestructive evaluation

Image resolution

Interferometers

Range imaging

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