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WO2003060423A2
WO2003060423A2 PCT/US2003/000699 US0300699W WO03060423A2 WO 2003060423 A2 WO2003060423 A2 WO 2003060423A2 US 0300699 W US0300699 W US 0300699W WO 03060423 A2 WO03060423 A2 WO 03060423A2
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  • the present invention relates to apparatus for imaging tissue samples using optical coherence tomography and incorporating an optical element to improve transverse resolution and depth of focus.
  • OCT optical coherence tomography
  • optical coherence tomography configurations that can perform high transverse resolution imaging over a large depth of field. It would be desirable to have a simple device for performing high transverse resolution, large depth of field optical coherence tomography. In addition, by allowing light delivery through a single optical fiber, this device would be also be easily incorporated into catheters or endoscopes. These properties would make this device an enabling technology for performing optical coherence tomography in applications requiring sub-cellular resolution imaging at remote sites within biological systems.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic view describing focusing using a refractive axicon.
  • a collimated beam, incident from the left, is focused to an axial line with a narrow width and large depth.
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic view of an OCT system with axicon optic in sample arm.
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the relationship between axial location and annulus of illumination.
  • Fig. 4A is a schematic view of the image formation.
  • Fig. 4B is a schematic view of the translation of the entire optical assembly in the y- direction.
  • Fig. 4C is a schematic view of the rotation of the entire optical assembly.
  • Fig. 4D is a schematic view of the angular deflection of the axial line focus in the x-y plane.
  • Fig. 5 is a schematic view of a system used to perform high transverse resolution ranging with a high depth of field.
  • Fig. 6 is a schematic view of an offset fiber array.
  • Fig. 7 is a schematic of a fiber array, microlens array and diffraction grating.
  • Fig. 8 is a schematic view of an embodiment of an apodized pupil plane filter.
  • Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the use of an apodizer in front of an imaging lens.
  • Axicon shall mean any optic element (or combination thereof) capable of generating an axial line focus. Refractive, diffractive, and reflective axicons have been demonstrated. See, J.H. McLeod, J. Opt. Soc. Am 44, 592 (1954); J.H. McLeod, J. Opt. Soc. Am 50, 166 (1960); and J.R. Rayces, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 48, 576 (1958).
  • sqrt(2) or 2
  • the depth of focus for a uniform beam (3 dB full-width-half-maximum intensity response for a planar reflector moved through the longitudinal plane) may be defined as
  • Longitudinal shall mean substantially parallel to the optical axis.
  • Longitudinal resolution shall mean the minimum distance, ⁇ z, in the longitudinal direction that two points may be separated while still being differentiated by an optical detection means.
  • spot size shall mean the transverse diameter of a focused spot.
  • the spot size is defined as transverse width of the spot where the intensity at the focus has decreased by a factor of 1/e 2 .
  • the spot size, d is defined as
  • the spot radius is defined as the transverse position of the first zero of the Airy disk
  • n is the refractive index of the immersion medium.
  • Transverse shall mean substantially perpendicular to the optical axis.
  • Transverse resolution shall mean the minimum distance, ⁇ r, in the transverse direction that two points may be separated while still being differentiated by an optical detection means.
  • An axial line focus with a narrow transverse beam diameter and over a large length (or depth of focus), is generated. Used in conjunction with OCT, the diameter of the line focus determines the transverse resolution and the length determines the depth of field.
  • the detection of light backreflected from sites along the axial focus is performed using a Michelson interferometer. When the light source has a finite spectral width, this configuration can be used to determine the axial location of the backreflection site. The axial resolution is determined by the coherence length of the light source.
  • An axicon (reflective, transmissive, or diffractive optical element (“DOE")) is an acceptable model known to those skilled in the art for this and will be the method that is used in the present invention to demonstrate use of OCT with an axial line focus to achieve high resolution imaging over large depths of field. It is to be understood that this method is illustrative and not intended to be the exclusive model.
  • Other known models include, but are not limited to, multi-focal lenses, such as the Rayleigh-Wood lens (Optical Processing and Computing, H.H Arsenault, T. Szoplik, and B. Macukow eds., Academic Press Inc., San Diego, CA, 1989), the use of chromatic aberration to produce an array of wavelength dependent foci along the longitudinal axis, and the like.
  • Equation (1) The intensity distribution of light transmitted through a refractive axicon lens (see R. Arimoto, C. Saloma, T. Tanaka, and S. Kawata, Appl. Opt. 31, 6653 (1992)) is given by Equation (1):
  • Equation (3) Equation (3)
  • Equation (1) is modified, but in all cases it is the diameter of the axial focus that determines the transverse resolution of the imaging system.
  • a theme of the present invention is that the poor transverse resolution typical of current OCT systems can be improved by changing from a standard focusing geometry in which the focal volume (power distribution) is limited in both the transverse and the axial dimensions to one in which the focal volume is limited only in the transverse direction.
  • is the spectral width (full- width half maximum (“FWHM”))of the light source.
  • Fig. 4A illustrates the entire OCT/axicon system of one embodiment of the present invention. All components, other than the axicon probe, are standard to OCT.
  • OCT to determine the backreflection as a function of distance along the axial line focus provides a one dimensional raster scan. This is typically accomplished by scanning the length of the interferometer reference arm.
  • An axicon has the property each axial location of the focus corresponds to a unique annulus at the input aperture of the axicon (see Fig. 3). This relationship could allow the reference arm length scanning to be replaced by scanning an annulus of illumination at the axicon aperture.
  • a scan of another axis must be performed.
  • This second scanning dimension is usually performed at a slower rate.
  • Methods of accomplishing this slow scanning of the secondary axis include moving the sample arm optics, including the optical fiber, collimating lens and axicon, in the y direction (see Fig. 4B), rotating the entire probe around the optical fiber axis (see Fig. 4C) or angularly deflecting the line focus in the x-y plane (see Fig. 4D). See, (G.J. Tearney, S.A. Boppart, B.E. Bouma, M.E. Brezinski, N.J. Weissman, J.F. Southern, and J.G.
  • Fig. 5 is a schematic of an alternative apparatus used to perform high transverse resolution ranging with a high depth of field.
  • the system comprises a light source, beam redirecting element, detector, and an optical element.
  • the optical element provides line focus and an array of focused spots on the sample.
  • Fig. 6 shows an offset fiber array are directed by the mirror through the objective and used to displace focused (imaged) spots in the longitudinal and transverse dimensions on the sample.
  • the spots are scanned (scan direction being indicated by the horizontal line and arrows) to create a multidimensional image.
  • Fig. 7 is a schematic of a fiber array, microlens array and diffraction grating (array of mirrors) used to displace focused (imaged) spots in the longitudinal and transverse dimensions on the sample.
  • Light from the light source (not shown) passes through the fibers in the array, and through the microlens array to the diffraction grating.
  • Light directed by the grating passes through the objective lens and focused on the sample.
  • the spots are scanned (scan direction being indicated by the horizontal line and arrows) to create a multidimensional image.
  • An alternative means for providing a high transverse resolution over a large depth of focus is the use of a filter in the back plane of the imaging lens.
  • This technique commonly termed apodization, allows the production of either a line focus as in the axicon or a multitude of focused spots positioned along the longitudinal dimension.
  • the use of annular apodization to shape a beam focus has been previously described in the literature (M. Martinez-Corral, P. Andres, J. Ojeda-Castaneda, G. Saavedra, Opt. Comm. 119, 491 (1995)).
  • use of apodization to create high transverse resolution over a large focal distance, where the longitudinal data is further resolved by OCT has not been previously described.
  • Fig. 8 shows an embodiment of an apodized pupil plane filter.
  • Fig. 9 shows a schematic of the use of an apodizer in front of an imaging lens the output of which is focused in the axial line.
  • the present invention also provides a method of obtaining a high resolution and high depth of focus image of a sample, comprising:
  • An advantage of the present invention is that the OCT imaging apparatus is capable of enabling sub-cellular resolution imaging along transverse and longitudinal dimensions of the sample in a compact, optical fiber-based package.
  • Other advantages include the potential compact size and low cost of axial line focus optical elements such as the apodizer-lens combination or axicon.

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