CN203208010U - Super-miniature optical coherence tomography imaging probe containing gradient refractive index lens - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to the technical field of medical apparatus and instruments and provides a super-miniature optical coherence tomography imaging probe containing a gradient refractive index lens. The probe comprises a single-mode optical fiber part, a gradient refractive index lens part and an inclined reflection surface part; a connection face of the single-mode optical fiber part and the gradient refractive index lens part is an inclined plane; and the inclined reflection surface part is an inclined reflection surface formed by polishing the gradient refractive index lens part. According to the super-miniature optical coherence tomography imaging probe disclosed by the utility model, on one hand, the angle of the connection face is enlarged under the condition that the reflection surface is not eliminated, and the strength of the reflected light is greatly reduced so that the reflected light is too weak to generate an interference phenomenon; on the other hand, the advantage of simultaneously meeting the requirement on the size being is less than 250 microns and eliminating interference rings generated by a plurality of times of reflection are realized.
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This utility model relates to technical field of medical instruments, and particularly a kind of detection that is applied to cardiovascular OCT or tissue narrow space is to prevent the superminiature optical coherence tomography probe that contains gradient-index lens of interference ring.
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Along with the reach of science, in medical science with in biology, various Image-forming instruments have successively appearred, for example: ultra sonic imaging, X-ray imaging, CT, MRT and PET etc., but what have oneself advantage and weak point with these instruments.Ultra sonic imaging depends on the acoustic impedance of biological tissue, and poor contrast is difficult to find early stage canceration; The X-ray imaging depends on the density of biological tissue, density is more big, image is just more white, but the Different Organs that approaches for density and the image of tissue then can't not differentiated because contrast is high, and radioscopy makes tissue suffer the effect of strong ionizing radiation, and the high-energy of incident can make biological tissue's ionization.In addition, the CT in the chromatography imaging technique, MRT and PET equipment and cost of use costliness have certain damaging action to human body; For example: X-CT has higher imaging depth, can survey whole health, resolution can reach 0.7mm to 2.0mm, the image reconstruction work of not overscanning and intensive all will spend the long time, obtaining a complete CT image generally needed for tens seconds, so it is not suitable for doing real-time high-resolution imaging; MRI causes atomic resonance in the body to send their information itself based on high-intensity magnetic field and high-frequency signal, and its resolution is also relatively low.And optical image technology becomes the comparatively ideal technology that compares, and wherein topmost representative is optical coherence tomography technology (optical coherence tomography) OCT.Its advantage is: utilize infrared light to the human zero damage as light source (generally being 830nm or 1310nm), utilize the principle of door coherence time to realize chromatography, have very high resolution (micron order), can realize noncontact, radiationless, high-resolution and realtime imaging and in the body biopsy.It is owing to possess above-mentioned special advantage, and the optical coherence tomography technology is a kind of medical imaging technology with fastest developing speed over nearly 20 years, is mainly used in ophthalmology, skin, dentistry, cardiovascular, respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract, early-stage cancer detection etc.
The core of OCT technology is Michelson's interferometer, because the OCT technology derives from white light interferometric method, optical coherence domain reflectometry measurement technology in fact the earliest.The coherent light that this technology uses a wideband light source to send carries out the measurement of reflected field, and has obtained the axial resolution of 10um by experiment and greater than the dynamic range of 100dB.And traditional image method mainly comprises nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) vessel imaging and angiographic imaging, yet these imagings are merely able to present profile or the in-profile of blood vessel, detail section to blood vessel wall and lumen of vessels manifests very fuzzy, comprise the size, composition, crackle of blood vessel wall tremulous pulse dissipating rashes piece etc., these information have important clinic value for vascular integrity assessment and prediction.And, because X ray has very strong radioactivity, so also limited usability to a certain extent.Therefore, desirable blood vessel imaging technology should not only can find the focus zone of blood vessel but also can analyze this regional lesion properties guaranteeing under the prerequisite of necessary security, thereby provides effective scientific basis for clinical diagnosis.(intravascular ultrasound tomography IVUS) can directly stretch into the profile scanning imaging that internal blood vessel is carried out blood vessel with a miniature ultrasound imaging probe to intravascular ultrasound imaging.This technology has improved the resolution of blood vessel imaging to a certain extent, can find some tangible focus zone, but because the frequency of the ultrasonic probe that adopts is generally between 20-50MHz, correspondence image resolution is approximately about 200-100 μ m, this resolution also is not enough to see clearly the details of blood vessel wall, has many limitation.And optical coherence tomography chromatography (the optical coherence tomography that adopts developed recently to get up, OCT) technology can realize the high-resolution imaging of micron order in the cardiovascular, and the effect of clinical discriminating and diagnosis coronary atherosclerosis and therapeutic intervention is carried out tracking evaluation.
The appearance of endoscopic OCT is in the future carrying out the in-vivo tissue pathological changes and cancer diagnosis provides strong help.(Intravascular OCT IV-OCT) has the unique function that can present arteriosclerotic micro details, and particularly those are considered to be easy to the lump that will break suddenly in OCT imaging in the blood vessel.The sharpest edges of this technology are exactly its high-resolution, exceed 10 times than the resolution of intravascular ultrasound imaging, can observe atheromatous plaque and the coronary artery micro-structure changes from tissue morphology.In addition, be implanted into observation and the location of support for blood vessel, the OCT imaging is that common shadowgraph technique and intravascular ultrasound imaging are incomparable in the blood vessel.Whether fully the doctor can clearly observe whether adherent fully, expansion, torn tissue, tissue prolapsus and the frame support rails situation such as whether be evenly distributed of support from the result of OCT imaging, and these are extremely important for uses of estimating surgical stent.Present development along with the OCT technology, can realize IC high speed, high resolution imaging, and because the appearance of miniaturization imaging fiber conduit probe can realize the imaging of artery stenosis inside pipe wall, these all are that common imaging technique institute is unapproachable.OCT imaging catheter and intravascular ultrasound catheter compare, and the OCT conduit only is made of an optical fiber, and is without any need for sensor, simple and practical.
The OCT imaging system is just to begin recent years to grow up in the blood vessel, and it mainly combines technology such as optical imagery, mechanical scanning, signal processing, is the product of multidisciplinary cross coupled.Miniature OCT imaging catheter not only is used for tremulous pulse, vein also can be used for lung airway, can also be used for the detection of various narrow spaces such as the micropore of femto-second laser processing.At the characteristics of cardiovascular imaging, spy upon head in needs are special and solve a following key issue:
1, probe miniaturization issues because cardiovascular OCT probe will enter into the tubulose arteries of human body, is position the narrowest in the human body, requires probe size less than 250um even littler.And traditional endoscopic OCT probe is made up of optical fiber and GRIN Lens and prism, and general GRIN Lens is of a size of 1.8mm, 1mm.The endoscopic OCT probe stock size outside dimension minimum of therefore making is 1mm only, is difficult to produce reach the requirement of cardiovascular OCT probe size.
2, eliminate the difficult problem of interference ring, because endoscopic OCT probe is made up of optical fiber and GRIN Lens and prism, general optical system return loss is about 60dB, but because the signal to noise ratio of OCT system can reach more than the 100dB, therefore the reflected light of each end face generation on light path still can produce the phenomenon of mutual interference, cause the appearance of interference ring, and the very serious quality that has interfered with image of interference ring must thoroughly be eliminated interference ring.
US Patent No. discloses a kind of mini optical fibre probe for No. 4740047, but because fibre-optical probe increases lens and do not come collimated beam, so can't allow beam convergence, so signal is very weak, can't reach the instructions for use of OCT probe.
Chinese patent CN100407980C number, a kind of scanning micro-optical probe is disclosed, can satisfy the demand of size microminiaturization, but because the microprism that whole optical probe is made by optical fiber, coreless fiber, self-focusing optical fiber, band angle coreless fiber is formed, occur a plurality of reflectings surface in the middle of causing, each reflecting surface can produce certain reflected light, thereby cause the phenomenon that interference ring occurs, and a plurality of joint face is when connecting, technology is complicated, manufacture difficulty is big, the production cost height.To be exactly a kind of scheme of announcing in the patent be made up of a kind of GRIN Lens less than 300um and reflecting mirror and optical fiber Fig. 1.Two end faces of GRIN Lens all are the planes, and the reflected light of two plane generations can produce interference ring, and concrete interference ring is seen Fig. 2.In the optical coherence tomography system, the reflex strength relation between the reflecting surface on the propagation path of light can be detected.Two reflectings surface produce than strong reflection light in very near distance in Fig. 2, light is repeatedly reflection in two reflectings surface, repeatedly the light of reflection will cause the appearance of interference ring (ciomatic flare) through coherent imaging, and why be referred to as ghost be because this interference ring be non-existent originally in image, this can cause the decline of image quality.Especially when interference ring and actual imaging of tissue are overlapping, can cause and can't differentiate interference ring and real image, this is the difficult problem of a maximum of OCT probe.And owing to adopted the plastic protective sleeve pipe in the patent, two very adverse factors are arranged, and the first, the refractive index of the refractive index of plastic protective sleeve and glass-reflected prism does not match, and therefore can cause more reflected light to occur, and might cause interference ring yet.In addition because plastic bushing can only be done circular cross section, therefore collimated beam is equivalent to can carry out one to light beam and converge effect through a cylindrical lens through behind the plastic bushing, and causing the outgoing hot spot is ellipse light spot, produce optical distortion, can influence the image quality of OCT so greatly.
At this, US Patent No. 7805034 has been introduced the mini optical fibre probe of a kind of elimination ghost (being interference ring), it is in order to solve the problem of interference ring, must eliminate two planes between the probe, therefore, describe a kind of way that adopts the globe lens welding in the patent, replaced two planes of lens and reflecting mirror with two spheres, reduce plane reflection light greatly, therefore can eliminate interference ring (ciomatic flare).But the shortcoming of this patent has been to use a globe lens, is of a size of diameter 500um, can't satisfy the lens diameter size of cardiovascular OCT probe requirement less than the requirement of 250um.In sum, need a kind of detection that is applied to cardiovascular OCT or tissue narrow space of design, to prevent the imaging probe of interference ring.
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Can not to satisfy size simultaneously less than 250um and eliminate the repeatedly technical problem of the interference ring of reflection generation in order to overcome to exist in the prior art, this utility model provides a kind of superminiature optical coherence tomography probe that contains gradient-index lens.
This utility model solves the problems of the technologies described above the technical scheme that adopts:
A kind of superminiature optical coherence tomography probe that contains gradient-index lens, described probe comprises single-mode fiber part, gradient-index lens part and sloping reflector part, and the joint face of described single-mode fiber part and gradient-index lens part is the inclined-plane, and described sloping reflector is the sloping reflector for being polished in the gradient-index lens part partly.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model: the single-mode fiber part of described probe and the angle of gradient-index lens joint face partly are 8 °-15 °.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model: the diameter of the gradient-index lens part of described probe is 125um-250um.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model: the angle of the sloping reflector of described probe is 42 °-60 °.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model: also establish on the sloping reflector of described probe and be coated with the total reflection rete, and described total reflection rete is metallic diaphragm.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model: it is the quartz glass protective layer of 250um-500um that the described probe outside also has diameter, and the light output end of described optical coherence tomography probe is the plane.
With respect to prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are: on the one hand under the situation of not eliminating reflecting surface, increase the joint face angle, reduce intensity of reflected light significantly, make reflected light weak to not producing interference, can satisfy size on the other hand simultaneously less than 250um and eliminate the repeatedly advantage of the interference ring of reflection generation.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of original optics OCT probe;
Fig. 2 has the image of interference ring after for the imaging of optics OCT probe;
Fig. 3 eliminates the image of interference ring after for the imaging of optics OCT probe;
Fig. 4 is the structural representation that uses the optic probe of 125um lens making among the embodiment one;
Fig. 5 is the optic probe structural representation that uses 250um diameter gradient-index lens to make among the embodiment two;
Fig. 6 is the optic probe structural representation of embodiment three band flat glass pipes.
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1, single-mode fiber, 2, GRIN Lens, 4, reflecting prism, 12, the single-mode fiber part, 22, the gradient-index lens part, 32, converging beam, 42, sloping reflector, 51, the quartz glass protective layer.
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The utility model is described in further detail below in conjunction with drawings and embodiments.
Fig. 1 is general cardiovascular OCT probe, the 1st, and single-mode fiber, the 2nd, GRIN Lens, the 4th, reflecting prism, two planes of GRIN Lens 2 are respectively at single-mode fiber 1 and reflecting prism 4 bonding or weldings, and the reflected light that these two planes produce will cause interference ring.The reflected light on plane can calculate by following formula:
In the formula:
Be the plane reflection rate, in optical fiber and the welding of GRIN Lens end face or abutting edge,
Be 1.4681(fiber core refractive index),
Be the GRIN Lens refractive index,
=1.55.At GRIN Lens and reflecting prism end face abutting edge or weld, make owing to reflecting prism is generally coreless fiber, so refractive index is identical with single-mode fiber
=1.4681.As can be seen from the above equation, two refractive indexs are more more low near reflectance, therefore will be as much as possible with two refractive index match.Therefore two reflecting surface reflective light intensities are suitable substantially.The formula that calculates return loss is as follows:
RL
1= 10lgR
01 （2）
By calculating as can be known, the reflection echo loss of two faces is 31dB, therefore, two closely the light of identical reflex strength can form interference, produce interference ring (being ghost).
Address this problem, following three kinds of ways arranged:
1, thoroughly eliminates this two reflectings surface, just can not produce reflected light.
2, do not eliminate under the situation of reflecting surface, increase the joint face angle, reduce intensity of reflected light significantly, make reflected light weak to not producing interference.
When bevel angle is 8 when spending, return loss is greater than 90dB, and when bevel angle is 10 when spending, return loss is greater than 100dB.
3, do not eliminate reflecting surface and do not increase under the situation of reflecting surface angle yet, catoptrical distance is zoomed out, make the interference ring that produces exceed the indication range of image.
Because the imaging depth of OCT image is generally 2-3mm, therefore, so long as radius just can not show greater than the image beyond the 5mm, the diameter formula of interference ring is 2nd+ λ/2, and n is the index of refraction in lens, and d is the spacing of two reflectings surface.The refractive index of lens is 1.55, as long as 2nd just can not demonstrate interference ring at image greater than 10mm.And the image of the imaging of elimination interference ring as shown in Figure 3.
Below namely at above-mentioned put forward under the situation of not eliminating reflecting surface, increase the joint face angle, reduce intensity of reflected light significantly, make reflected light weak to the specific embodiment that can not produce interference.
Embodiment one
Consult shown in Figure 4, for present embodiment provides a kind of superminiature optical coherence tomography probe that contains gradient-index lens, optic probe comprises that diameter is that the single-mode fiber part 12 of 125um is gradient-index lens part 22 or the gradient index fibre welding or bonding of 2.27P with one-period length, 50 degree sloping reflectors 42 directly on gradient-index lens part 22 or gradient index fibre grinding and polishing form.Owing to reduced by a reflecting surface, therefore can eliminate the interference ring that two reflectings surface cause.The diameter of the gradient-index lens part of selecting in the present embodiment 22 is 125um, and radical sign A is that the length in 2.588,1.27P cycle is 5.51mm.The internal diameter of cover glass pipe is 125um, and external diameter is 250um, and the light-emitting window place of converging beam 32 is the plane.
Embodiment two
Consult shown in Figure 5, the scheme that provides a kind of superminiature optical coherence tomography that contains gradient-index lens to pop one's head in for present embodiment is identical with embodiment two, difference is that gradient-index lens part 22 diameters of selecting in the present embodiment are 250um, radical sign A is that the length in 1.2975,1.27P cycle is 6.15mm.The internal diameter of cover glass pipe is 250um, and external diameter is 500um, and the light-emitting window place of converging beam 32 is the plane.
Embodiment three
Superminiature optical coherence tomography probe in above-described embodiment one to four all can increase quartz glass protective layer 51 outside, and its structural representation as shown in Figure 6.
With respect to prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are: on the one hand under the situation of not eliminating reflecting surface, increase the joint face angle, reduce intensity of reflected light significantly, make reflected light weak to not producing interference, can satisfy size on the other hand simultaneously less than 250um and eliminate the repeatedly advantage of the interference ring of reflection generation.
Foregoing detailed description only is exemplary description, and those skilled in the art are under the situation that does not break away from the scope and spirit that this utility model protects, and the various embodiments according to different actual needs is designed all should belong to protection domain of the present utility model.
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1. a superminiature optical coherence tomography that contains gradient-index lens is popped one's head in, it is characterized in that: described probe comprises single-mode fiber part (12), gradient-index lens part (22) and sloping reflector part (42), and the joint face of described single-mode fiber part (12) and gradient-index lens part (22) is the inclined-plane, the sloping reflector of described sloping reflector part (42) for being polished in gradient-index lens part (22).
2. superminiature optical coherence tomography according to claim 1 is popped one's head in, and it is characterized in that: the angle of the single-mode fiber part (12) of described probe and the joint face of gradient-index lens part (22) is 8 °-15 °.
3. superminiature optical coherence tomography according to claim 1 is popped one's head in, and it is characterized in that: the diameter of the gradient-index lens part (22) of described probe is 125um-250um.
4. superminiature optical coherence tomography according to claim 1 is popped one's head in, and it is characterized in that: the angle of the sloping reflector of described probe is 42 °-60 °.
5. superminiature optical coherence tomography probe according to claim 1 is characterized in that: also establish on the sloping reflector of described probe and be coated with the total reflection rete, and described total reflection rete is metallic diaphragm.
6. superminiature optical coherence tomography according to claim 1 is popped one's head in, and it is characterized in that: it is the quartz glass protective layer (51) of 250um-500um that the described probe outside also has diameter, and the light output end of described optical coherence tomography probe is the plane.
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