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- faLCI Fourier domain angle-resolved low coherence interferometry
- LSS light scattering spectrography
- LCI low-coherence interferometry
- a light source with low temporal coherence such as broadband white light source for example. Interference is only achieved when the path length delays of the interferometer are matched with the coherence time of the light source.
- the axial resolution of the system is determined by the coherent length of the light source and is typically in the micrometer range suitable for the examination of tissue samples.
- Experimental results have shown that using a broadband light source and its second harmonic allows the recovery of information about elastic scattering using LCI.
- LCI has used time depth scans by moving the sample with respect to a reference arm directing the light source onto the sample to receive scattering information from a particular point on the sample. Thus, scan times were on the order of 5-30 minutes in order to completely scan the sample.
- Angle-resolved LCI has been developed as a means to obtain sub-surface structural information regarding the size of a cell.
- Light is split into a reference and sample beam, wherein the sample beam is projected onto the sample at different angles to examine the angular distribution of scattered light.
- the a/LCI technique combines the ability of (LCI) to detect singly scattered light from sub-surface sites with the capability of light scattering methods to obtain structural information with sub-wavelength precision and accuracy to construct depth-resolved tomographic images.
- Structural information is determined by examining the angular distribution of the back-scattered light using a single broadband light source is mixed with a reference field with an angle of propagation.
- the size distribution of the cell is determined by comparing the osciallary part of the measured angular distributions to predictions of Mie theory.
- Such a system is described in Cellular Organization and Substructure Measured Using Angle - Resolved Low - Coherence Interferometry , Biophysical Journal, 82, April 2002, 2256-2265, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- the a/LCI technique has been successfully applied to measuring cellular morphology and to diagnosing intraepithelial neoplasia in an animal model of carcinogenesis.
- the inventors of the present application described such a system in Determining nuclear morphology using an improved angle - resolved low coherence interferometry system in Optics Express, 2003, 11(25): p. 3473-3484, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- the a/LCI method of obtaining structural information about a sample has been successfully applied to measuring cellular morphology in tissues and in vitro as well as diagnosing intraepithelial neoplasia and assessing the efficacy of chemopreventive agents in an animal model of carcinogenesis.
- a/LCI has been used to prospectively grade tissue samples without tissue processing, demonstrating the potential of the technique as a biomedical diagnostic.
- 6,501,551 does not discuss measurement of angularly resolved scattering distributions, the use of scattered light to determine scatterer size by analysis of elastic scattering properties, nor the use of an imaging spectrometer to record data in parallel, whether that data is scattering or imaging data.
- U.S. Pat. No. 7,061,622 discusses fiber optic means for measuring angular scattering distributions, but does not discuss the Fourier domain concept. Also because it describes an imaging technique, the embodiments all include focusing optics which limit the region probed.
- the a/LCI method can be a clinically viable method for assessing tissue health without the need for tissue extraction via biopsy or subsequent histopathological evaluation.
- the a/LCI system can be applied for a number of purposes: early detection and screening for dysplastic epithelial tissues, disease staging, monitoring of therapeutic action and guiding the clinician to biopsy sites.
- the non-invasive, non-ionizing nature of the optical a/LCI probe means that it can be applied frequently without adverse effect.
- the potential of a/LCI to provide rapid results will greatly enhance its widespread applicability for disease screening.
- FIGS. 3A-D illustrate examples of faLCI data recovered in the spectral domain for an exemplary sample of polystyrene beads, comprising the total acquired signal ( FIG. 3A ), the reference field intensity ( FIG. 3B ), the signal field intensity ( FIG. 3C ), and the extracted, cross-correlated signal between the reference and signal field intensities ( FIG. 3D );
- FIG. 4B is an illustration of an angular distribution plot of raw and filtered data regarding scattered sample signal intensity as a function of angle in order to recover size information about the sample;
- FIG. 5A is an illustration of the filtered angular distribution of the scattered sample signal intensity compared to the best fit Mie theory to determine size information about the sample;
- FIG. 6 is a schematic of exemplary embodiment of the faLCI system employing an optical fiber probe
- FIG. 8B is an illustration of sample illumination and scattered light collection with distal end of probe in the faLCI system illustrated in FIG. 8B ;
- Lenses L 3 ( 31 ) and L 4 ( 38 ) are arranged to produce a collimated pencil beam 30 incident on the sample 18 (step 66 in FIG. 2 ).
- the input beam 30 is made to strike the sample at an angle of 0.10 radians relative to the optical axis.
- This arrangement allows the full angular aperture of lens L 4 ( 38 ) to be used to collect scattered light 40 from the sample f 8 .
- Lens L 4 ( 38 ) may have a focal length of 3.5 centimeters.
- the light 40 scattered by the sample 18 is collected by lens L 4 ( 32 ) and relayed by a 4f imaging system comprised of lenses L 5 ( 43 ) and L 6 ( 44 ) such that the Fourier plane of lens L 4 ( 32 ) is reproduced in phase and amplitude at the spectrograph slit 48 (step 68 in FIG. 2 ).
- the scattered light 40 is mixed with the reference field 14 at a second beamsplitter BS 2 42 with the combined fields 46 falling upon the entrance slit (illustrated in FIG. 1B as element 48 ) to the imaging spectrograph 29 (step 70 in FIG. 2 ).
- the imaging spectrograph 29 may be the model SP2150i, manufactured by Acton Research for example.
- the detected signal 46 is a function of vertical position on the spectrograph slit 48 , ⁇ , and wavelength once the light is dispersed by the spectrograph 29 .
- the detected signal at pixel (m, n) can be related to the signal 40 and reference fields 16 (E s , E r ,) as:
- S j represents the amplitude distribution of the scattering originating from the jth interface, located at depth l j .
- FIG. 3A shows typical data representing the total detected intensity (Equation (1), above) of the sum of the reference field 16 and the field scattered 40 by a sample of polystyrene beads, in the frequency domain given as a function of wavelength and angle, given with respect to the backwards scattering direction.
- this data was acquired in 40 milliseconds and records data over 186 mrad, approximately 85% of the expected range, with some loss of signal at higher angles.
- FIGS. 3B and 3C illustrate the intensity of the reference and signal fields 14 , 30 respectively.
- the interference 46 between the two fields is realized as illustrated in FIG. 3D .
- interference data 46 are interpolated into k-space and Fourier transformed to give the angular depth resolved profiles of the sample 18 as illustrated in FIG. 4A .
- the Fourier transform of the angle-resolved, cross correlated signal 46 which is the result of signal 40 scattered at a multitude of reflected angles off the sample 18 and obtained in the Fourier plane of lens L 4 ( 38 ), produces depth-resolved information about the sample 18 as a function of angle and depth.
- This provides depth-resolved information about the sample 18 . Because the angle-resolved, cross-correlated signal 46 is spectrally dispersed, the data acquisition permits data to be obtained in less than one second. Information about all depths of the sample 18 at each of the multitude of different points (i.e. angles) on the sample 18 can be obtained with one scan on the order of approximately 40 milliseconds. Normally, time domain based scanning is required to obtain information about all depths of a sample at a multitude of different points, thus requiring substantial time and movement of the reference arm with respect to the sample.
- the sample is contained in a round well (8 mm diameter, 1 mm deep) behind a glass coverslip (thickness, d ⁇ 170 ⁇ m) (not shown).
- the sample beam 30 is incident on the sample 18 through the coverslip.
- the data are ensemble averaged by integrating over one mean free path (MFP).
- MFP mean free path
- the spatial average can enable a reduction of speckle when using low-coherence light to probe a scattering sample.
- the scattering distribution is low pass filtered to produce a smoother curve, with the cutoff frequency chosen to suppress spatial correlations on length scales above 16 ⁇ m.
- the scattering distribution data (i.e. a/LCI data) obtained from the sample 18 using the disclosed data acquisition scheme can also be used to make a size determination of the nucleus using the Mie theory.
- a scattering distribution 74 of the sample 18 is illustrated in FIG. 4B as a contour plot.
- the raw scattered information 74 about the sample 18 is shown as a function of the signal field 30 and angle.
- a filtered curve is determined using the scattered data 74 .
- Comparison of the filtered scattering distribution curve 76 i.e. a representation of the scattered data 74
- the prediction of Mie theory curve 78 in FIG. 5A
- a direct comparison between the filtered a/LCI data 76 and Mie theory data 78 may not be possible, as the chi-squared fitting algorithm tends to match the background slope rather than the characteristic oscillations.
- the calculated theoretical predictions include a Gaussian distribution of sizes characterized by a mean diameter (d) and standard deviation (ED) as well as a distribution of wavelengths, to accurately model the broad bandwidth source.
- the best fit ( FIG. 5A ) is determined by minimizing the Chi-squared between the data 76 and Mie theory ( FIG. 5B ), yielding a size of 10.2+/ ⁇ 1.7 ⁇ m, in excellent agreement with the true size.
- the measurement error is larger than the variance of the bead size, most likely due to the limited range of angles recorded in the measurement.
- a/LCI data As an alternative to processing the a/LCI data and comparing to Mie theory, there are several other approaches which could yield diagnostic information. These include analyzing the angular data using a Fourier transform to identify periodic oscillations characteristic of cell nuclei. The periodic oscillations can be correlated with nuclear size and thus will possess diagnostic value.
- Another approach to analyzing a/LCI data is to compare the data to a database of angular scattering distributions generated with finite element method (FEM) or T-Matrix calculations. Such calculations may offer superior analysis as there are not subject to the same limitations as Mie theory. For example, FEM or T-Matrix calculations can model non-spherical scatterers and scatterers with inclusions while Mie theory can only model homogenous spheres.
- FEM finite element method
- T-Matrix calculations can model non-spherical scatterers and scatterers with inclusions while Mie theory can only model homogenous spheres.
- the angular distribution is captured by locating the distal end of the fiber bundle in a conjugate Fourier transform plane of the sample using a collecting lens. This angular distribution is then conveyed to the distal end of the fiber bundle where it is imaged using a 4f system onto the entrance slit of an imaging spectrograph.
- a beamsplitter is used to overlap the scattered field with a reference field prior to entering the slit so that low coherence interferometry can also be used to obtain depth resolved measurements.
- the distal tip of the fiber is maintained one focal length away from lens L 2 ( 98 ) to image the angular distribution of scattered light.
- the sample 18 ′ is located in the front focal plane of lens L 2 ( 98 ) using a mechanical mount 100 .
- the sample is located in the front focal plane of lens L 2 ( 98 ) using a transparent sheath (element 102 ).
- scattered light 104 emerging from a proximal end 105 of the fiber probe F 4 ( 94 ) is recollimated by lens L 4 ( 104 ) and overlapped with the reference field 14 ′ using beamsplitter BS ( 108 ).
- the two combined fields 110 are re-imaged onto the slit (element 48 ′ in FIG. 7 ) of the imaging spectrograph 29 ′ using lens L 5 ( 112 ).
- the focal length of lens L 5 ( 112 ) may be varied to optimally fill the slit 48 ′.
- the resulting optical signal contains information on each scattering angle across the vertical dimension of the slit 48 ′ as described above for the apparatus of FIGS. 1A and 1B .
- a/LCI fiber-optic probe will collect the angular distribution over a 0.45 radian range (approx. 30 degrees) and will acquire the complete depth resolved scattering distribution 110 in a fraction of a second.
- Yet another data acquisition embodiment of the disclosed embodiments could be a fa/LCI system is based on a modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer as illustrated in FIG. 5A .
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- the angular distribution is sampled by approximately 130 individual fibers for example, across a vertical strip of the fiber bundle 116 ′′, as depicted by the highlighted area in FIG. 8C .
- d 1 can be minimized by fabricating a channel in the distal ferrule 123 and positioning the delivery fiber 16 ′′ in the channel.
- the fiber bundle 116 is spatially coherent, resulting in a reproduction of the collected angular scattering distribution at the proximal face. Additionally, as all fibers in the bundle 116 are path length matched to within the coherence length, the optical path length traveled by scattered light 122 at each angle is identical.
- Xie Chen in Optics Letters 30(14), 1803-1805 (2005) (hereinafter “Xie”), incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, discloses a multimode coherent fiber bundle into a time-domain optical coherence tomography system and demonstrated that the modes of light coupled into an individual fiber will travel different path lengths.
- the higher order modes are offset from the fundamental mode by 3.75 mm, well beyond the depth ( ⁇ 100 ⁇ m) required for gathering clinically relevant data.
- the power in the higher order modes had a minimal effect on dynamic range as the sample arm power is significantly less than the reference arm power.
- the example of the disclosed embodiments herein uses 130 fibers to simultaneously collect scattered light across a range of angles in parallel, resulting in rapid data collection.
- the optical path length of the reference arm is matched to that of the fundamental mode of the sample arm.
- a reference field 130 may be attenuated by a neutral density filter 132 and mixed with the angular scattering distribution at beamsplitter BS ( 134 ).
- the mixed fields 136 are dispersed with a high resolution grating (e.g. 1200 lines/mm) and detected using an integrated, cooled CCD (not shown) (e.g. 1024 ⁇ 252, 24 ⁇ m ⁇ 24 ⁇ m pixels, 0.1 nm resolution) covering a spectral range of 99 nm centered at 840 nm, for example.
- a high resolution grating e.g. 1200 lines/mm
- CCD not shown
- the detected signal 136 a function of wavelength, 2, and 0, can be related to the signal and reference fields (Es, Er) as:
- ⁇ is the phase difference between the two fields
- (m,n) denotes a pixel on the CCD
- . . . denotes a temporal average.
- I( ⁇ m , ⁇ n ) is uploaded to a PC using LabVIEW manufactured by National Instruments software and processed in 320 ms to produce a depth and angle resolved contour plot of scattered intensity.
- the processing of the angle-resolved scattered field to obtain depth and size information described above, and in particular reference to the data acquisition apparatus of FIGS. 1A and 1B can then be used to obtain angle-resolved, depth-resolved information about the sample 18 ′′ using the scattered mixed field 136 generated by the apparatus in FIG. 8 .
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Abstract
Fourier domain a/LCI (faLCI) system and method which enables in vivo data acquisition at rapid rates using a single scan. Angle-resolved and depth resolved spectra information is obtained with one scan. The reference arm can remain fixed with respect to the sample due to only one scan required. A reference signal and a reflected sample signal are cross-correlated and dispersed at a multitude of reflected angles off of the sample, thereby representing reflections from a multitude of points on the sample at the same time in parallel. Information about all depths of the sample at each of the multitude of different points on the sample can be obtained with one scan on the order of approximately 40 milliseconds. From the spatial, cross-correlated reference signal, structural (size) information can also be obtained using techniques that allow size information of scatterers to be obtained from angle-resolved data.
Description
- This application is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/042,672 entitled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOSCOPIC ANGLE-RESOLVED LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY” filed Mar. 8, 2011, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety and which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/538,309, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,903,254 entitled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOSCOPIC ANGLE-RESOLVED LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY,” filed on Aug. 10, 2009, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety and which is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11,548,648, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,595,889, entitled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOSCOPIC ANGLE-RESOLVED LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY,” filed on Oct. 11, 2006, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/725,603 entitled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOSCOPIC ANGLE-RESOLVED LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY,” filed on Oct. 11, 2005, also incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- This application is also related to U.S. Pat. No. 7,102,758 entitled “FOURIER DOMAIN LOW-COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY FOR LIGHT SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY APPARATUS AND METHOD,” which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- This invention was supported by the National Institute of Health, Grant No. R21-CA-109907, and the National Science Foundation, Grant No. BES-03-48204. The United States Government has certain rights in the invention.
- Fourier domain angle-resolved low coherence interferometry (faLCI) system and method that enables data acquisition of angle-resolved and depth-resolved spectra information of a sample, in which depth and size information about the sample can be obtained with a single scan at rapid rates for in vivo applications in particular.
- Examining the structural features of cells is essential for many clinical and laboratory studies. The most common tool used in the examination for the study of cells has been the microscope. Although microscope examination has led to great advances in understanding cells and their structure, it is inherently limited by the artifacts of preparation. The characteristics of the cells can only been seen at one moment in time with their structure features altered because of the addition of chemicals. Further, invasion is necessary to obtain the cell sample for examination.
- Thus, light scattering spectrography (LSS) was developed to allow for in vivo examination applications, including cells. The LSS technique examines variations in the elastic scattering properties of cell organelles to infer their sizes and other dimensional information. In order to measure cellular features in tissues and other cellular structures, it is necessary to distinguish the singly scattered light from diffuse light, which has been multiply scattered and no longer carries easily accessible information about the scattering objects. This distinction or differentiation can be accomplished in several ways, such as the application of a polarization grating, by restricting or limiting studies and analysis to weakly scattering samples, or by using modeling to remove the diffuse component(s).
- As an alternative approach for selectively detecting singly scattered light from sub-surface sites, low-coherence interferometry (LCI) has also been explored as a method of LSS. LCI utilizes a light source with low temporal coherence, such as broadband white light source for example. Interference is only achieved when the path length delays of the interferometer are matched with the coherence time of the light source. The axial resolution of the system is determined by the coherent length of the light source and is typically in the micrometer range suitable for the examination of tissue samples. Experimental results have shown that using a broadband light source and its second harmonic allows the recovery of information about elastic scattering using LCI. LCI has used time depth scans by moving the sample with respect to a reference arm directing the light source onto the sample to receive scattering information from a particular point on the sample. Thus, scan times were on the order of 5-30 minutes in order to completely scan the sample.
- Angle-resolved LCI (a/LCI) has been developed as a means to obtain sub-surface structural information regarding the size of a cell. Light is split into a reference and sample beam, wherein the sample beam is projected onto the sample at different angles to examine the angular distribution of scattered light. The a/LCI technique combines the ability of (LCI) to detect singly scattered light from sub-surface sites with the capability of light scattering methods to obtain structural information with sub-wavelength precision and accuracy to construct depth-resolved tomographic images. Structural information is determined by examining the angular distribution of the back-scattered light using a single broadband light source is mixed with a reference field with an angle of propagation. The size distribution of the cell is determined by comparing the osciallary part of the measured angular distributions to predictions of Mie theory. Such a system is described in Cellular Organization and Substructure Measured Using Angle-Resolved Low-Coherence Interferometry, Biophysical Journal, 82, April 2002, 2256-2265, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- The a/LCI technique has been successfully applied to measuring cellular morphology and to diagnosing intraepithelial neoplasia in an animal model of carcinogenesis. The inventors of the present application described such a system in Determining nuclear morphology using an improved angle-resolved low coherence interferometry system in Optics Express, 2003, 11(25): p. 3473-3484, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The a/LCI method of obtaining structural information about a sample has been successfully applied to measuring cellular morphology in tissues and in vitro as well as diagnosing intraepithelial neoplasia and assessing the efficacy of chemopreventive agents in an animal model of carcinogenesis. a/LCI has been used to prospectively grade tissue samples without tissue processing, demonstrating the potential of the technique as a biomedical diagnostic.
- Initial prototype and second generation a/LCI systems required 30 and 5 minutes respectively to obtain similar data. These earlier systems relied on time domain depth scans just as provided in previous LCI based systems. The length of the reference arm of the interferometer had to be mechanically adjusted to achieve serial scanning of the detected scattering angle. The method of obtaining angular specificity was achieved by causing the reference beam of the interferometry scheme to cross the detector plane at a variable angle. This general method for obtaining angle-resolved, depth-resolved backscattering distributions was disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,847,456 entitled “Methods and systems using field-based light scattering spectroscopy,” which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
- Other LCI prior systems are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,002,480 and 6,501,551, both of which are incorporated by reference herein in their entireties. U.S. Pat. No. 6,002,480 covers obtaining depth-resolved spectroscopic distributions and discusses obtaining the size of scatterers by observing changes in wavelength due to elastic scattering properties. U.S. Pat. No. 6,501,551 covers endoscopic application of interferometric imaging and does anticipate the use of Fourier domain concepts to obtain depth resolution. U.S. Pat. No. 6,501,551 does not discuss measurement of angularly resolved scattering distributions, the use of scattered light to determine scatterer size by analysis of elastic scattering properties, nor the use of an imaging spectrometer to record data in parallel, whether that data is scattering or imaging data. Finally, U.S. Pat. No. 7,061,622 discusses fiber optic means for measuring angular scattering distributions, but does not discuss the Fourier domain concept. Also because it describes an imaging technique, the embodiments all include focusing optics which limit the region probed.
- Embodiments disclosed herein involve a new a/LCI technique called Fourier domain a/LCI (faLCI), which enables data acquisition at rapid rates using a single scan, sufficient to make in vivo applications feasible. The embodiments disclosed herein obtain angle-resolved and depth-resolved spectra information about a sample, in which depth and size information about the sample can be obtained with a single scan, and wherein the reference arm can remain fixed with respect to the sample due to only one scan required. A reference signal and a reflected sample signal are cross-correlated and dispersed at a multitude of reflected angles off of the sample, thereby representing reflections from a multitude of points on the sample at the same time in parallel.
- Since this angle-resolved, cross-correlated signal is spectrally dispersed, the new data acquisition scheme is significant as it permits data to be obtained in less than one second, a threshold determined to be necessary for acquiring data from in vivo tissues. Information about all depths of the sample at each of the multitude of different points on the sample can be obtained with one scan on the order of approximately 40 milliseconds. From the spatial, cross-correlated reference signal, structural (size) information can also be obtained using techniques that allow size information of scatterers to be obtained from angle-resolved data.
- The faLCI technique of the disclosed embodiments uses the Fourier domain concept to acquire depth resolved information. Signal-to-noise and commensurate reductions in data acquisition time are possible by recording the depth scan in the Fourier (or spectral) domain. The faLCI system combines the Fourier domain concept with the use of an imaging spectrograph to spectrally record the angular distribution in parallel. Thereafter, the depth-resolution of the disclosed embodiments is achieved by Fourier transforming the spectrum of two mixed fields with the angle-resolved measurements obtained by locating the entrance slit of the imaging spectrograph in a Fourier transform plane to the sample. This converts the spectral information into depth-resolved information and the angular information into a transverse spatial distribution. The capabilities of faLCI have been initially demonstrated by extracting the size of polystyrene beads in a depth-resolved measurement.
- Various mathematical techniques and methods are provided for determining size information of the sample using the angle-resolved, cross-correlated signal.
- The embodiments disclosed herein are not limited to any particular arrangement. In one embodiment, the apparatus is based on a modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer, wherein broadband light from a superluminescent diode is split into a reference beam and an input beam to the sample by a beamsplitter. In another embodiment, a unique optical fiber probe can be used to deliver light and collect the angular distribution of scattered light from the sample of interest.
- The a/LCI method can be a clinically viable method for assessing tissue health without the need for tissue extraction via biopsy or subsequent histopathological evaluation. The a/LCI system can be applied for a number of purposes: early detection and screening for dysplastic epithelial tissues, disease staging, monitoring of therapeutic action and guiding the clinician to biopsy sites. The non-invasive, non-ionizing nature of the optical a/LCI probe means that it can be applied frequently without adverse effect. The potential of a/LCI to provide rapid results will greatly enhance its widespread applicability for disease screening.
- The accompanying drawing figures incorporated in and forming a part of this specification illustrate several aspects of the disclosed embodiments, and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the disclosed embodiments.
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FIG. 1A is a schematic of one exemplary embodiment of the faLCI system employing Mach-Zehnder interferometer; -
FIG. 1B is an illustration showing the relationship of the detected scattering angle to slit of spectrograph in the interferometer arrangement ofFIG. 1A ; -
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the steps performed by the interferometer apparatus to recover depth-resolved spatial cross-correlated information about the sample for analysis; -
FIGS. 3A-D illustrate examples of faLCI data recovered in the spectral domain for an exemplary sample of polystyrene beads, comprising the total acquired signal (FIG. 3A ), the reference field intensity (FIG. 3B ), the signal field intensity (FIG. 3C ), and the extracted, cross-correlated signal between the reference and signal field intensities (FIG. 3D ); -
FIG. 4A is an illustration of the axial spatial cross-correlated function performed on the cross-correlated faLCI data illustrated inFIG. 3D as a function of depth and angle; -
FIG. 4B is an illustration of an angular distribution plot of raw and filtered data regarding scattered sample signal intensity as a function of angle in order to recover size information about the sample; -
FIG. 5A is an illustration of the filtered angular distribution of the scattered sample signal intensity compared to the best fit Mie theory to determine size information about the sample; -
FIG. 5B is a Chi-squired minimization of size information about the sample to estimate the diameter of cells in the sample; -
FIG. 6 is a schematic of exemplary embodiment of the faLCI system employing an optical fiber probe; -
FIG. 7A is a cutaway view of an a/LCI fiber-optic probe tip that may be employed by the faLCI system illustrated inFIG. 6 ; -
FIG. 7B illustrates the location of the fiber probe in the faLCI system illustrated inFIG. 7A ; -
FIG. 8A is an illustration of an alternative fiber-optic faLCI system that may be employed with the disclosed embodiments; -
FIG. 8B is an illustration of sample illumination and scattered light collection with distal end of probe in the faLCI system illustrated inFIG. 8B ; and -
FIG. 8C is an illustration of an image of the illuminated distal end of probe of the faLCI system illustrated inFIG. 8A . - The embodiments set forth below represent the necessary information to enable those skilled in the art to practice the disclosed embodiments and illustrate the best mode of practicing the embodiments. Upon reading the following description in light of the accompanying drawing figures, those skilled in the art will understand the concepts of the embodiments and will recognize applications of these concepts not particularly addressed herein. It should be understood that these concepts and applications fall within the scope of the disclosure and the accompanying claims.
- Embodiments disclosed herein involve a new a/LCI technique called Fourier domain a/LCI (faLCI), which enables data acquisition at rapid rates using a single scan, sufficient to make in vivo applications feasible. The embodiments disclosed herein obtain angle-resolved and depth-resolved spectra information about a sample, in which depth and size information about the sample can be obtained with a single scan, and wherein the reference arm can remain fixed with respect to the sample due to only one scan required. A reference signal and a reflected sample signal are cross-correlated and dispersed at a multitude of reflected angles off of the sample, thereby representing reflections from a multitude of points on the sample at the same time in parallel.
- Since this angle-resolved, cross-correlated signal is spectrally dispersed, the new data acquisition scheme is significant as it permits data to be obtained in less than one second, a threshold determined to be necessary for acquiring data from in vivo tissues. Information about all depths of the sample at each of the multitude of different points on the sample can be obtained with one scan on the order of approximately 40 milliseconds. From the spatial, cross-correlated reference signal, structural (size) information can also be obtained using techniques that allow size information of scatterers to be obtained from angle-resolved data.
- The faLCI technique of the disclosed embodiments uses the Fourier domain concept to acquire depth resolved information. Signal-to-noise and commensurate reductions in data acquisition time are possible by recording the depth scan in the Fourier (or spectral) domain. The faLCI system combines the Fourier domain concept with the use of an imaging spectrograph to spectrally record the angular distribution in parallel. Thereafter, the depth-resolution of the disclosed embodiments is achieved by Fourier transforming the spectrum of two mixed fields with the angle-resolved measurements obtained by locating the entrance slit of the imaging spectrograph in a Fourier transform plane to the sample. This converts the spectral information into depth-resolved information and the angular information into a transverse spatial distribution. The capabilities of faLCI have been initially demonstrated by extracting the size of polystyrene beads in a depth-resolved measurement.
- The key advances of the disclosed embodiments can be broken down into three components: (1) new rapid data acquisition methods, (2) fiber probe designs, and (3) data analysis schemes. Thus, the disclosed embodiments are described in this matter for convenience in its understanding.
- An exemplary apparatus, as well as the steps involved in the process of obtaining angle and depth-resolved distribution data scattered from a sample, are also set forth in
FIG. 2 . The faLCI scheme in accordance with one embodiment of the disclosed embodiments is based on a modified Mach-Zehnder, interferometer as illustrated inFIG. 1A . Broadband light 10 from a superluminescent diode (SLD) 12 is directed by a mirror 13 (step 60 inFIG. 2 ) and split into areference beam 14 and aninput beam 16 to asample 18 by beamsplitter BS1 20 (step 62 inFIG. 3 ). The output power of theSLD 12 may be 3 milliWatts, having a specification of λo=850 nm, Δλ=20 nm FWHM for example, providing sufficiently low coherence length to isolate scattering from a cell layer within tissue. The path length of thereference beam 14 is set by adjustingretroreflector RR 22, but remains fixed during measurement. Thereference beam 14 is expanded using lenses L1 (24) and L2 (26) to create illumination (step 64 inFIG. 2 ), which is uniform and collimated upon reaching a spectrograph slit 48 in animaging spectrograph 29. For example, L1 may have a focal length of 1.5 centimeters, andL2 26 may have focal length of 15 centimeters. - Lenses L3 (31) and L4 (38) are arranged to produce a
collimated pencil beam 30 incident on the sample 18 (step 66 inFIG. 2 ). By displacing lens L4 (38) vertically relative to lens L3 (31), theinput beam 30 is made to strike the sample at an angle of 0.10 radians relative to the optical axis. This arrangement allows the full angular aperture of lens L4 (38) to be used to collect scattered light 40 from the sample f8. Lens L4 (38) may have a focal length of 3.5 centimeters. - The light 40 scattered by the
sample 18 is collected by lens L4 (32) and relayed by a 4f imaging system comprised of lenses L5 (43) and L6 (44) such that the Fourier plane of lens L4 (32) is reproduced in phase and amplitude at the spectrograph slit 48 (step 68 inFIG. 2 ). Thescattered light 40 is mixed with thereference field 14 at asecond beamsplitter BS2 42 with the combinedfields 46 falling upon the entrance slit (illustrated inFIG. 1B as element 48) to the imaging spectrograph 29 (step 70 inFIG. 2 ). Theimaging spectrograph 29 may be the model SP2150i, manufactured by Acton Research for example.FIG. 1B illustrates the distribution of scattering angle across the dimension of theslit 48. The mixed fields are dispersed with a high resolution grating (e.g. 1200 1/mm) and detected using a cooled CCD 50 (e.g. 1340×400, 20 μm×20 μm pixels, Spec10:400, manufactured by Princeton Instruments) (step 72 inFIG. 2 ). - The detected
signal 46 is a function of vertical position on the spectrograph slit 48, λ, and wavelength once the light is dispersed by thespectrograph 29. The detected signal at pixel (m, n) can be related to thesignal 40 and reference fields 16 (Es, Er,) as: -
- In order to obtain depth resolved information, the wavelength spectrum at each scattering angle is interpolated into a wavenumber (k=2π/λ) spectrum and Fourier transformed to give a spatial cross correlation, ΓSR(z) for each vertical pixel yn:
- The
reference field 14 takes the form -
E r(k)=E oexp└−((k−k o)/Δk)2┘exp└−((y−y o)/Δy)2┘exp[ikΔl] (3) - where ko (yo and Δk(Δy) represent the center and width of the Gaussian wavevector (spatial) distribution and Δl is the selected path length difference. The
scattered field 40 takes the form -
E s(k,θ)=Σj E oexp[−((k−k o)/Δk)2]exp[ikl j ]S j(k,θ) (4) - where Sj represents the amplitude distribution of the scattering originating from the jth interface, located at depth lj. The angular distribution of the
scattered field 40 is converted into a position distribution in the Fourier image plane of lens L4 through the relationship y=f4θ. For the pixel size of the CCD 50 (e.g. 20 μm), this yields an angular resolution (e.g. 0.57 mrad) and an expected angular range (e.g. 228 mrad.). - Inserting Eqs. (3) and (4) into Eq. (2) and noting the uniformity of the reference field 14 (Δy>>>slit height) yields the spatial cross correlation at the nth vertical position on the detector 29:
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- Evaluating this equation for a single interface yields:
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ΓSR(z,y n)=|E o|2exp[−((z−Δl+l j)Δk)2/8]S j(k o,θn =y n /f 4)cos φ. (6) - Here we have assumed that the scattering amplitude S does not vary appreciably over the bandwidth of the source light 12. This expression shows that we obtain a depth resolved profile of the
scattering distribution 40 with each vertical pixel corresponding to a scattering angle. -
FIG. 3A below shows typical data representing the total detected intensity (Equation (1), above) of the sum of thereference field 16 and the field scattered 40 by a sample of polystyrene beads, in the frequency domain given as a function of wavelength and angle, given with respect to the backwards scattering direction. In an exemplary embodiment, this data was acquired in 40 milliseconds and records data over 186 mrad, approximately 85% of the expected range, with some loss of signal at higher angles. -
FIGS. 3B and 3C illustrate the intensity of the reference andsignal fields reference fields interference 46 between the two fields is realized as illustrated inFIG. 3D . At each angle,interference data 46 are interpolated into k-space and Fourier transformed to give the angular depth resolved profiles of thesample 18 as illustrated inFIG. 4A . The Fourier transform of the angle-resolved, cross correlatedsignal 46, which is the result ofsignal 40 scattered at a multitude of reflected angles off thesample 18 and obtained in the Fourier plane of lens L4 (38), produces depth-resolved information about thesample 18 as a function of angle and depth. This provides depth-resolved information about thesample 18. Because the angle-resolved,cross-correlated signal 46 is spectrally dispersed, the data acquisition permits data to be obtained in less than one second. Information about all depths of thesample 18 at each of the multitude of different points (i.e. angles) on thesample 18 can be obtained with one scan on the order of approximately 40 milliseconds. Normally, time domain based scanning is required to obtain information about all depths of a sample at a multitude of different points, thus requiring substantial time and movement of the reference arm with respect to the sample. - In the experiments that produced the depth-resolved profile of the
sample 18 illustrated inFIG. 4A , thesample 18 consists of polystyrene microspheres (e.g. n=1.59, 10.1 μm mean diameter, 8.9% variance, NIST certified, Duke Scientific) suspended in a mixture of 80% water and 20% glycerol (n=1.36) to provide neutral buoyancy. The solution was prepared to obtain a scattering length l=200 μm. The sample is contained in a round well (8 mm diameter, 1 mm deep) behind a glass coverslip (thickness, d˜170 μm) (not shown). Thesample beam 30 is incident on thesample 18 through the coverslip. The round trip thickness through the coverslip (2 n d=2(1.5)(170 μm)=0.53 mm—seeFIG. 4A ) shows the depth resolved capability of the approach. The data are ensemble averaged by integrating over one mean free path (MFP). The spatial average can enable a reduction of speckle when using low-coherence light to probe a scattering sample. To simplify the fitting procedure, the scattering distribution is low pass filtered to produce a smoother curve, with the cutoff frequency chosen to suppress spatial correlations on length scales above 16 μm. - In addition to obtaining depth-resolved information about the
sample 18, the scattering distribution data (i.e. a/LCI data) obtained from thesample 18 using the disclosed data acquisition scheme can also be used to make a size determination of the nucleus using the Mie theory. A scattering distribution 74 of thesample 18 is illustrated inFIG. 4B as a contour plot. The raw scattered information 74 about thesample 18 is shown as a function of thesignal field 30 and angle. A filtered curve is determined using the scattered data 74. Comparison of the filtered scattering distribution curve 76 (i.e. a representation of the scattered data 74) to the prediction of Mie theory (curve 78 inFIG. 5A ) enables a size determination to be made. - In order to fit the scattered data 76 to Mie theory, the a/LCI signals are processed to extract the oscillatory component which is characteristic of the nucleus size. The smoothed data 76 are fit to a low-order polynomial (4th order was used for example herein, but later studies use a lower 2nd order), which is then subtracted from the distribution 76 to remove the background trend. The resulting oscillatory component is then compared to a database of theoretical predictions obtained using Mie theory 78 from which the slowly varying features were similarly removed for analysis.
- A direct comparison between the filtered a/LCI data 76 and Mie theory data 78 may not be possible, as the chi-squared fitting algorithm tends to match the background slope rather than the characteristic oscillations. The calculated theoretical predictions include a Gaussian distribution of sizes characterized by a mean diameter (d) and standard deviation (ED) as well as a distribution of wavelengths, to accurately model the broad bandwidth source.
- The best fit (
FIG. 5A ) is determined by minimizing the Chi-squared between the data 76 and Mie theory (FIG. 5B ), yielding a size of 10.2+/−1.7 μm, in excellent agreement with the true size. The measurement error is larger than the variance of the bead size, most likely due to the limited range of angles recorded in the measurement. - As an alternative to processing the a/LCI data and comparing to Mie theory, there are several other approaches which could yield diagnostic information. These include analyzing the angular data using a Fourier transform to identify periodic oscillations characteristic of cell nuclei. The periodic oscillations can be correlated with nuclear size and thus will possess diagnostic value. Another approach to analyzing a/LCI data is to compare the data to a database of angular scattering distributions generated with finite element method (FEM) or T-Matrix calculations. Such calculations may offer superior analysis as there are not subject to the same limitations as Mie theory. For example, FEM or T-Matrix calculations can model non-spherical scatterers and scatterers with inclusions while Mie theory can only model homogenous spheres.
- As an alternative embodiment, the disclosed embodiments can also employ optical fibers to deliver and collect light from the sample of interest to use in the a/LCI system for endoscopic applications. This alternative embodiment is illustrated in
FIG. 6 . - The fiber optic a/LCI scheme for this alternative embodiment makes use of the Fourier transform properties of a lens. This property states that when an object is placed in the front focal plane of a lens, the image at the conjugate image plane is the Fourier transform of that object. The Fourier transform of a spatial distribution (object or image) is given by the distribution of spatial frequencies, which is the representation of the image's information content in terms of cycles per mm. In an optical image of elastically scattered light, the wavelength retains its fixed, original value and the spatial frequency representation is simply a scaled version of the angular distribution of scattered light.
- In the fiber optic a/LCI scheme, the angular distribution is captured by locating the distal end of the fiber bundle in a conjugate Fourier transform plane of the sample using a collecting lens. This angular distribution is then conveyed to the distal end of the fiber bundle where it is imaged using a 4f system onto the entrance slit of an imaging spectrograph. A beamsplitter is used to overlap the scattered field with a reference field prior to entering the slit so that low coherence interferometry can also be used to obtain depth resolved measurements.
- Turning now to
FIG. 6 , the fiber optic faLCI scheme is shown.Light 12′ from abroadband light source 10′ is split into areference field 14′ and asignal field 16′ using a fiber splitter (FS) 80. A splitter ratio of 20:1 is chosen in one embodiment to direct more power to asample 18′ via thesignal arm 82 as the light returned by the tissue is typically only a small fraction of the incident power. - Light in the
reference fiber 14′ emerges from fiber F1 and is collimated by lens L1 (84) which is mounted on atranslation stage 86 to allow gross alignment of the reference arm path length. This path length is not scanned during operation but may be varied during alignment. A collimatedbeam 88 is arranged to be equal in dimension to theend 91 of fiber bundle F3 (90) so that the collimatedbeam 88 illuminates all fibers in F3 with equal intensity. Thereference field 14′ emerging from the distal tip of F3 (90) is collimated with lens L3 (92) in order to overlap with the scattered field conveyed by fiber F4 (94). In an alternative embodiment, light emerging from fiber F1 (14′) is collimated then expanded using a lens system to produce a broad beam. - The scattered field is detected using a coherent fiber bundle. The scattered field is generated using light in the
signal arm 82 which is directed toward thesample 18′ of interest using lens L2 (98). As with the free space system, lens L2 (98) is displaced laterally from the center of single-mode fiber F2 such that a collimated beam is produced which is traveling at an angle relative to the optical axis The fact that the incident beam strikes the sample at an oblique angle is essential in separating the elastic scattering information from specular reflections. The light scattered by thesample 18′ is collected by a fiber bundle consisting of an array of coherent single mode or multi-mode fibers. The distal tip of the fiber is maintained one focal length away from lens L2 (98) to image the angular distribution of scattered light. In the embodiment shown inFIG. 6 , thesample 18′ is located in the front focal plane of lens L2 (98) using amechanical mount 100. In the endoscope compatible probe shown inFIG. 7 , the sample is located in the front focal plane of lens L2 (98) using a transparent sheath (element 102). - As illustrated in
FIG. 6 and alsoFIG. 7B ,scattered light 104 emerging from aproximal end 105 of the fiber probe F4 (94) is recollimated by lens L4 (104) and overlapped with thereference field 14′ using beamsplitter BS (108). The two combinedfields 110 are re-imaged onto the slit (element 48′ inFIG. 7 ) of theimaging spectrograph 29′ using lens L5 (112). The focal length of lens L5 (112) may be varied to optimally fill theslit 48′. The resulting optical signal contains information on each scattering angle across the vertical dimension of theslit 48′ as described above for the apparatus ofFIGS. 1A and 1B . - It is expected that the above-described a/LCI fiber-optic probe will collect the angular distribution over a 0.45 radian range (approx. 30 degrees) and will acquire the complete depth resolved
scattering distribution 110 in a fraction of a second. - There are several possible schemes for creating the fiber probe which are the same from an optical engineering point of view. One possible implementation would be a linear array of single mode fibers in both the signal and reference arms. Alternatively, the
reference arm 96 could be composed of an individual single mode fiber with thesignal arm 82 consisting of either a coherent fiber bundle or linear fiber array. - The fiber probe tip can also have several implementations which are substantially equivalent. These would include the use of a drum or ball lens in place of lens L2 (98). A side-viewing probe could be created using a combination of a lens and a minor or prism or through the use of a convex minor to replace the lens-minor combination. Finally, the entire probe can be made to rotate radially in order to provide a circumferential scan of the probed area.
- Yet another data acquisition embodiment of the disclosed embodiments could be a fa/LCI system is based on a modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer as illustrated in
FIG. 5A . Theoutput 10″ from a fiber-coupled superluminescent diode (SLD)source 12″ (e.g. Superlum, Po=15 mW, λo=841.5 nm, Δλ=49.5 nm, coherence length=6.3 μm) is split into samplearm delivery fiber 16″ and a referencearm delivery fiber 14″ by a 90/10 fiber splitter FS (80′) (e.g. manufactured by AC Photonics). The samplearm delivery fiber 16″ can consist of either of the following for example: (1) a single mode fiber with polarization control integrated at the tip; or (2) a polarization maintaining fiber. Asample probe 113 is assembled by affixing thedelivery fiber 16″(NA≅0.12) along theferrule 114 at the distal end of afiber bundle 116 such that the end face of thedelivery fiber 16″ is parallel to and flush with the face of thefiber bundle 116. Ball lens L1 (115) (e.g. f=2.2 mm) is positioned one focal length from the face of theprobe 113 and centered on thefiber bundle 116, offsetting thedelivery fiber 16″ from the optical axis of lens L1 (115). This configuration, which is also depicted inFIG. 8B , produces a collimated beam 120 (e.g. P=9 mW) with a diameter (e.g. 2f1NA) of 0.5 mm incident on thesample 18″ at an angle of 0.25 rad. for example. - The scattered light 122 from the sample is collected by lens L1 (115) and, via the Fourier transform property of the lens L1 (115), the angular distribution of the
scattered field 122 is converted into a spatial distribution at the distal face of the multimode coherent fiber bundle 116 (e.g. Schott North America, Inc., length=840 mm, pixel size=8.2 μm, pixel count=13.5K) which is located at the Fourier image plane of lens L1 (115). The relationship between vertical position on the fiber bundle, y′, and scattering angle, θ is given by y′=f1θ. As an illustration, the optical path of light scattered 122 at three selected scattering angles is shown inFIG. 8B . Overall, the angular distribution is sampled by approximately 130 individual fibers for example, across a vertical strip of thefiber bundle 116″, as depicted by the highlighted area inFIG. 8C . The 0.2 mm, for example, thick ferrule (d1) separating thedelivery fiber 16″ andfiber bundle 116 limits the minimum theoretical collection angle (θmin,th=d1/f1) to 0.09 rad in this example. The maximum theoretical collection angle is determined by d1 and d2, the diameter of the fiber bundle, by θmax,th=(d1+d2)/f1 to be 0.50 rad. Experiments using astandard scattering sample 122 indicate the usable angular range to be θmin=0.12 rad. to θmax=0.45 rad. d1, for example, can be minimized by fabricating a channel in thedistal ferrule 123 and positioning thedelivery fiber 16″ in the channel. Thefiber bundle 116 is spatially coherent, resulting in a reproduction of the collected angular scattering distribution at the proximal face. Additionally, as all fibers in thebundle 116 are path length matched to within the coherence length, the optical path length traveled byscattered light 122 at each angle is identical. The system disclosed in “Fiber-optic-bundle-based optical coherence tomography,” by T. Q. Xie, D. Mukai, S. G. Guo, M. Brenner, and Z. P. Chen in Optics Letters 30(14), 1803-1805 (2005) (hereinafter “Xie”), incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, discloses a multimode coherent fiber bundle into a time-domain optical coherence tomography system and demonstrated that the modes of light coupled into an individual fiber will travel different path lengths. In the example herein of the disclosed embodiments, it was experimentally determined that the higher order modes are offset from the fundamental mode by 3.75 mm, well beyond the depth (˜100 μm) required for gathering clinically relevant data. Additionally, the power in the higher order modes had a minimal effect on dynamic range as the sample arm power is significantly less than the reference arm power. Finally, it should be noted that while the system disclosed in Xie collected data serially through individual fibers, the example of the disclosed embodiments herein uses 130 fibers to simultaneously collect scattered light across a range of angles in parallel, resulting in rapid data collection. - The angular distribution exiting a
proximal end 124 of thefiber bundle 116 is relayed by the 4f imaging system of L2 and L3 (f2=3.0 cm, f3=20.0 cm) to the input slit 48″ of theimaging spectrograph 29″ (e.g. Acton Research, InSpectrum 150). The theoretical magnification of the 4f imaging system is (f3/f2) 6.67 in this example. Experimentally, the magnification was measured to be M=7.0 in this example with the discrepancy most likely due to the position of theproximal face 124 of thefiber bundle 116 with relation to lens L2 (126). The resulting relationship between vertical position on the spectrograph slit 48″, y, and θ is y=Mf1(θ−θmin). The optical path length of the reference arm is matched to that of the fundamental mode of the sample arm.Light 127 exiting thereference fiber 14″ is collimated by lens L4 (128) (e.g. f=3.5 cm, spot size=8.4 mm) to match the phase front curvature of the sample light and to produce even illumination across theslit 48″ of theimaging spectrograph 29″. Areference field 130 may be attenuated by aneutral density filter 132 and mixed with the angular scattering distribution at beamsplitter BS (134). Themixed fields 136 are dispersed with a high resolution grating (e.g. 1200 lines/mm) and detected using an integrated, cooled CCD (not shown) (e.g. 1024×252, 24 μm×24 μm pixels, 0.1 nm resolution) covering a spectral range of 99 nm centered at 840 nm, for example. - The detected
signal 136, a function of wavelength, 2, and 0, can be related to the signal and reference fields (Es, Er) as: - where φ is the phase difference between the two fields, (m,n) denotes a pixel on the CCD, and . . . denotes a temporal average. I(λm,θn) is uploaded to a PC using LabVIEW manufactured by National Instruments software and processed in 320 ms to produce a depth and angle resolved contour plot of scattered intensity. The processing of the angle-resolved scattered field to obtain depth and size information described above, and in particular reference to the data acquisition apparatus of
FIGS. 1A and 1B , can then be used to obtain angle-resolved, depth-resolved information about thesample 18″ using the scatteredmixed field 136 generated by the apparatus inFIG. 8 . - The embodiments set forth above represent the necessary information to enable those skilled in the art to practice the disclosed embodiments and illustrate the best mode of practicing the disclosed embodiments. Upon reading the following description in light if the accompanying drawings figures, those skilled in the art will understand the concepts of the disclosed embodiments and will recognize applications of these concepts not particularly addressed herein. It should be understood that these concepts and applications fall within the scope of the disclosure.
- Those skilled in the art will recognize improvements and modifications to the preferred embodiments of the disclosed embodiments. All such improvements and modifications are considered within the scope of the concepts disclosed herein and the claims that follow.
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1. An apparatus comprising:
a first arrangement configured to receive at least one first electro-magnetic radiation, and forward at least one second electro-magnetic radiation within a solid angle to a sample, wherein the at least one second electro-magnetic radiation is associated with the at least one first electro-magnetic radiation, wherein the first arrangement is configured to receive a plurality of third electro-magnetic radiations from the sample which is associated with the at least one second electro-magnetic radiation, and wherein at least one portion of the third electro-magnetic radiations is provided outside a periphery of the solid angle; and
a second arrangement configured to simultaneously detect signals which are (i) provided along optical axes associated therewith that are different from one another, and (ii) associated with each of the third electro-magnetic radiations, wherein the signals are associated with information for the at least one sample at a plurality of depths thereof, and wherein the second arrangement is configured to determine the depths using the at least one portion of the third electro-magnetic radiations.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a third arrangement configured to detect an interference between the at least one portion of the third electro-magnetic radiation and at least one fourth electro-magnetic radiation associated with the at least one first electro-magnetic radiation, and to obtain information associated with the sample as a function of the depths within the sample based on the interference.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a third arrangement configured to provide data associated with at least one of spectroscopic properties, angular back-scattering properties or elastic properties of at least one portion of the sample as a function of the signals.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a third arrangement configured to provide data associated with scattering characteristics of at least one portion of the sample as a function of a combination of the signals.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second arrangement is configured to determine the depths using a single one of the third electro-magnetic radiations.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second arrangement is further configured to combine the signals.
7. A method for detecting signals, comprising:
receiving at least one first electro-magnetic radiation;
forwarding at least one second electro-magnetic radiation within a solid angle to a sample,
wherein the at least one second electro-magnetic radiation is associated with the at least one first electro-magnetic radiation;
receiving a plurality of third electro-magnetic radiations from the sample which is associated with
the at least one second electro-magnetic radiation, wherein at least one portion of the third electro-magnetic radiations is provided outside a periphery of the solid angle;
simultaneously detecting the signals which are (i) provided along optical axes associated
therewith that are different from one another, and (ii) associated with each of the third
electro-magnetic radiations, wherein the signals are associated with information for the at least one sample at a plurality of depths thereof, and
using a computer arrangement, determining the depths using the at least one portion of the third electro-magnetic radiations.
8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising, after the simultaneous detection, combining the signals.
9. An apparatus comprising:
a first arrangement configured to receive at least one first electro-magnetic radiation, and forward
at least one second electro-magnetic radiation within a solid angle to a sample, wherein the at least one second electro-magnetic radiation is associated with the at least one first electro-magnetic radiation, wherein the first arrangement is configured to simultaneously receive at least two of a plurality of third electro-magnetic radiations from the sample which is associated with the at least one second electro-magnetic radiation, and wherein at least one portion of the third electro-magnetic radiations is provided outside a periphery of the solid angle; and
a second arrangement configured to simultaneously detect an interference between the at least
two of the third radiations which are provided along optical axes associated therewith that are different from one another and at least one fourth radiation associated with the at least one first radiation, and configured to obtain information associated with the sample as a function of at least one depth within the sample based on the interference.
10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the second arrangement is configured to determine the at least one depth based on the interference.
11. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the one second arrangement is configured to simultaneously detect signals associated with each of the third electro-magnetic radiations.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11 , further comprising a third arrangement configured to provide data associated with at least one of spectroscopic properties, angular back-scattering properties or elastic properties of at least one portion of the sample as a function of the signals.
13. The apparatus according to claim 11 , further comprising a third arrangement configured to provide data associated with scattering characteristics of at least one portion of the sample as a function of a combination of the signals.
14. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the second arrangement is configured to determine the depths using a single one of the third electro-magnetic radiations.
15. A method for detecting signals, comprising:
receiving at least one first electro-magnetic radiation;
forwarding at least one second electro-magnetic radiation within a solid angle to a sample,
wherein the at least one second electro-magnetic radiation is associated with the at least one first electro-magnetic radiation;
simultaneously receiving at least two of a plurality of third electro-magnetic radiations from the
sample which is associated with the at least one second electro-magnetic radiation, wherein at least one portion of the third electro-magnetic radiations is provided outside a periphery of the solid angle;
simultaneously detecting an interference between the at least two of the third radiations and at
least one fourth radiation associated with the at least one first radiation wherein the third radiations are provided along optical axes associated therewith that are different from one another; and
using a computer arrangement, obtaining information associated with the sample as a function of at least one depth within the sample based on the interference.
16. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising simultaneously detecting signals associated with each of the third electro-magnetic radiations which are provided along optical axes associated therewith that are different from one another.
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