The University of Texas System

Karathik Kumar

Robert Huntington Grant

Thomas E Milner

Marc D Feldman

Nathaniel J Kemp

Shaochen Chen

Jung-Hwan Oh

Eunha Kim

Jihoon Kim

Li-Hsin Han

Jonathan C Condit

The embodiments disclosed herein is a system for optical coherence tomographic imaging of turbid (i.e., scattering) materials utilizing multiple channels of information. The multiple channels of information may encompass spatial, angle, spectral and polarization domains. More specifically, the embodiments disclosed herein is related to methods and apparatus for utilizing optical sources, systems or receivers capable of providing (source), processing (system) or recording (receiver) a multiplicity of channels of spectral information for optical coherence tomographic imaging of turbid materials. In these methods and apparatus the multiplicity of channels of spectral information that can be provided by the source, processed by the system, or recorded by the receiver are used to convey simultaneously spatial, spectral or polarimetric information relating to the turbid material being imaged tomographically. The multichannel optical coherence tomographic methods can be incorporated into an endoscopic probe for imaging a patient.

OCT using spectrally resolved bandwidth

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Karathik Kumar