DYNAMIC OPTICAL COHERENCE ELASTOGRAPHY: A REVIEW.

Publication/Presentation Date

10-1-2010

Abstract

With the development of optical coherence tomography, the application optical coherence elastography (OCE) has gained more and more attention in biomechanics for its unique features including micron-scale resolution, real-time processing, and non-invasive imaging. In this review, one group of OCE techniques, namely dynamic OCE, are introduced and discussed including external dynamic OCE mapping and imaging of ex vivo breast tumor, external dynamic OCE measurement of in vivo human skin, and internal dynamic OCE including acoustomotive OCE and magnetomotive OCE. These techniques overcame some of the major drawbacks of traditional static OCE, and broadened the OCE application fields. Driven by scientific needs to engineer new quantitative methods that utilize the high micron-scale resolution achievable with optics, results of biomechanical properties were obtained from biological tissues. The results suggest potential diagnostic and therapeutic clinical applications. Results from these studies also help our understanding of the relationship between biomechanical variations and functional tissue changes in biological systems.

Volume

3

Issue

4

First Page

221

Last Page

233

ISSN

1793-5458

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Oncology

PubMedID

22448192

Department(s)

Department of Radiation Oncology

Document Type

Article

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