Multifunctional catheter-based optical coherence tomography system for oral cavity and endocervical canal imaging

Abstract

We have developed a multifunctional catheter-based OCT system, which provides architecture and birefringence information of biological tissue and allows volumetric imaging of the luminal part of the cervix. Preliminary imaging results of the in vivo human buccal mucosa and tongue were shown to validate the capabilities of volumetric imaging in the developed multifunctional OCT system, and further obtained the birefringence information by analyzing the polarization information of the OCT signal to implement the multifunctional OCT imaging.