Imaging the anterior eye segment by polarization-sensitive spectral-domain and swept-source optical coherence tomography

Masahiro Miura; Masahiro Yamanari; Toyohiko Yatagai; Yoshiaki Yasuno

doi:10.1117/12.761590

25 February 2008 Imaging the anterior eye segment by polarization-sensitive spectral-domain and swept-source optical coherence tomography

Masahiro Miura, Masahiro Yamanari, Toyohiko Yatagai, Yoshiaki Yasuno

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Proceedings Volume 6844, Ophthalmic Technologies XVIII; 68441C (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.761590
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) has been developed to measure the birefringent properties of the human eye. In the retina, retinal nerve fiber layer and retinal pigment epitherial layer have the characteristic birefringent properties.^1.2 In addition to such normal tissue, abnormal fibrous tissue of the retina can be detected by PS-OCT.³ In the anterior segment, the cornea is a birefringent tissue due to the multi-layered fibril structure.⁴ The sclera and tendon also have the birefringence and the contrast of these structures can be enhanced by PS-OCT.⁵ These studies have been used time-domain or spectral-domain PS-OCT. Recently, swept-source OCT (SS-OCT) has been applied for anterior eye segment imaging.⁶ At the 1.3 um wavelength, SS-OCT is more promising than spectral-domain OCT, because the available camera for the spectrometer is limited. Three-dimensional imaging of the anterior segment is possible owing to the high penetration, high acquisition speed and high sensitivity. We have developed a new system of SS-OCT with polarization sensitivity. In this study, we measure the birefringent properties of anterior eye segment by polarization-sensitive spectral-domain OCT (PS-SD-OCT) at 840 nm and polarizationsensitive swept-source OCT (PS-SS-OCT) at 1.3 um, and evaluated the possibilities for clinical application.

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Masahiro Miura, Masahiro Yamanari, Toyohiko Yatagai, and Yoshiaki Yasuno "Imaging the anterior eye segment by polarization-sensitive spectral-domain and swept-source optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 6844, Ophthalmic Technologies XVIII, 68441C (25 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.761590

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