SmartOCT: smartphone-integrated optical coherence tomography
Abstract
Smartphone devices have seen unprecedented technical innovation in computational power and optical imaging capabilities, making them potentially invaluable tools in scientific imaging applications. The smartphone’s compact form-factor and broad accessibility has motivated researchers to develop smartphone-integrated imaging systems for a wide array of applications. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one such technique that could benefit from smartphone-integration. Here, we demonstrate smartOCT, a smartphone-integrated OCT system that leverages built-in components of a smartphone for detection, processing and display of OCT data. SmartOCT uses a broadband visible-light source and line-field OCT design that enables snapshot 2D cross-sectional imaging. Furthermore, we describe methods for processing smartphone data acquired in a RAW data format for scientific applications that improves the quality of OCT images. The results presented here demonstrate the potential of smartphone-integrated OCT systems for low-resource environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jun 06, 2023
- Source ID
- 10.1364/boe.492439
Entities
People
- Audrey K. Ellerbee Bowden
- Iftak Hussain
- Joseph D Malone
Organizations
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
- National Institutes of Health
- Vanderbilt University