OCT

Optical coherence tomography or OCT, is a medical imaging method created by Massachusetts General Hospital researchers in 1990, for deep tissue examination. Using a laser tip that is continually rotating, OCT is able to delve deep into body tissues with focussed light, and image what it finds by measuring the wavelengths returned from organic material. It is somewhat slow, and is best used on non-living material, due to the high noise ratio produced by light waves bouncing off of rapidly moving blood cells in the layer being imaged, and in those above.

OCT works pixel by pixel, and slowly builds up a complete 3D image of each area with micrometer precision. It is slowly being replaced by the faster OFDI.

See also: OFDI

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Graphical MUD Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy ISAM Magnetricity MBAN Medical Body Area Network MUD

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