High-Performance Optical Coherence Tomography

Dear Colleagues,

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a representative case of the successful commercialization of an optical technique. It has been adopted in not only medical diagnostics but also in industrial inspection and model construction. Along with technological development, high-performance next-generation OCT systems continues to emerge, such as swept source OCT (SS-OCT), full-field OCT (FFOCT), OCT angiography (OCTA) and other functional OCT systems. These promising OCT techniques are of great interest in both academic research and practical applications with technical features of high resolution, high imaging speed, large imaging range, or offering specific functional information. Meanwhile, the performance of these OCT systems are significantly related with the improvement of key system or technical modules like swept lasers, demodulation technology, image processing algorithm, etc.

This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers working on all aspects of high-performance next-generation OCT, both systems and technological developments, from basic research to in-orbit results. Novel OCT system development and special applications in medical and industrial areas are welcome. Techniques for the generation of high-performance swept laser with high sweep speed, wideband sweep range, and high coherence, signal and image processing algorithms are also invited.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

Research works on high-performance OCT system like SSOCT, FFOCT, OCTA, Dynamic OCT, Doppler OCT, etc., including optimization methods for the imaging system, algorithm optimization for improving the resolution, imaging range, and special applications in medical diagnostics, industrial inspection, and model construction.

Research works on novel techniques for generating swept lasers, including Fourier domain mode locked laser, time-stretched swept laser, swept laser based on frequency shift, dispersion tuning swept laser, short cavity swept laser based on MEMS;

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Dongmei Huang
Dr. Peng Xiao
Dr. Zhenhe Ma
Dr. Lev A. Matveev
Prof. Dr. Alex Vitkin
Guest Editors

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