Parametric study of femtosecond inscription of microstructures for OCT artefact fabrication

Janarthanan Rasakanthan; Graham Chun Bon Lee; Peter D. Woolliams; Kate Sugden

doi:10.1117/12.907053

30 January 2012 Parametric study of femtosecond inscription of microstructures for OCT artefact fabrication

Janarthanan Rasakanthan, Graham Chun Bon Lee, Peter D. Woolliams, Kate Sugden

Proceedings Volume 8213, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVI; 82133N (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907053
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

As optical coherence tomography (OCT) becomes widespread, validation and characterization of systems becomes important. Reference standards are required to qualitatively and quantitatively measure the performance between difference systems. This would allow the performance degradation of the system over time to be monitored. In this report, the properties of the femtosecond inscribed structures from three different systems for making suitable OCT characterization artefacts (phantoms) are analyzed. The parameter test samples are directly inscribed inside transparent materials. The structures are characterized using an optical microscope and a swept-source OCT. The high reproducibility of the inscribed structures shows high potential for producing multi-modality OCT calibration and characterization phantoms. Such that a single artefact can be used to characterize multiple performance parameters such the resolution, linearity, distortion, and imaging depths.

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Janarthanan Rasakanthan, Graham Chun Bon Lee, Peter D. Woolliams, and Kate Sugden "Parametric study of femtosecond inscription of microstructures for OCT artefact fabrication", Proc. SPIE 8213, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVI, 82133N (30 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907053

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