Optical Coherence Tomography
Principles and Practice
- 2nd Edition - August 1, 2015
- Latest edition
- Author: Mark E. Brezinski
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 7 1 8 3 - 8
Optical Coherence Tomography, Principles and Applications, Second Edition provides the latest information on OCT, a high-resolution medical imaging technology that offers se… Read more
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Optical Coherence Tomography, Principles and Applications, Second Edition
provides the latest information on OCT, a high-resolution medical imaging technology that offers several distinct advantages over current medical imaging technologies.The book contains the most comprehensive information needed by a wide variety of groups using and studying this technology. It is completely updated throughout with the most recent research and applications, providing a broad treatment of the subject, including its optics, science, and the physics needed to understand the technology, a description of applications with a critical look on how the technology will successfully address actual clinical needs, a discussion of delivery of OCT to the patient, and FDA approval and comparisons with available competing technologies.
The required mathematical rigor is presented in such a way that non-scientists and non-engineers alike will be able to gain a basic understanding of OCT and its further applications.
- Provides the latest information on OCT, a high resolution imaging technology with distinct advantages over existing technologies
- Completely updated with the most recent research and applications in the field
- Includes the optics, science, and physics needed to understand the technology
- Compares OCT to available competing technologies
Optical engineers; biomedical and clinical scientists; clinicians; medical doctors; researchers; manufacturers of OCT devices.
Foreword
Section I:
Chapter 1. The Basics (math, waves, etc.) for the Nonphysical Scientist
Chapter 2. Light and Electromagnetic Waves
Chapter 3. Light in Matter
Chapter 4. Interference, Coherence, Diffraction, and Transfer Functions
Section II:
Chapter 5. Optical Coherence Tomography Theory
Chapter 6. Optoelectronics And Optical Components
Chapter 7. Noise and System Performance with TD-OCT and SD-OCT
Chapter 8. Polarization and Polarization Sensitive OCT (PS-OCT)
Chapter 9. Adjuvant Techniques: Absorption Spectroscopy, Contrast Probes, Phase Contrast, Elastography, and Entangled Photons
Chapter 10. Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography
Chapter 11. Digital Image Processing Techniques for Speckle Reduction, Enhancement and Segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Images
Section III
Chapter 12. Application of OCT to Clinical Imaging: Introduction
Chapter 13. Other Technologies
Chapter 14. Introduction to Clinical Research Design and Analysis
Chapter 15. OCT in Cardiovascular Medicine
Chapter 16. OCT in Musculoskeletal Disease
Chapter 17. OCT in Oncology
Chapter 18. Other Applications and Conclusions
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: August 1, 2015
- Language: English
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Mark E. Brezinski
Affiliations and expertise
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA