Optical Coherence Tomographie (OCT) with microscopic resolution and functional contrast

In contrast to conventional optical coherence tomography, microscopic OCT (mOCT) offers ten times the resolution, both axially and laterally. This makes it possible to visualize cellular morphology in vivo. Thanks to high imaging rates of several hundred B-scans per second, it is also possible to quantify highly dynamic processes at the cellular level, such as cilia beating.

Dynamic contrast

By analyzing the temporal signal changes in time series, functional information can also be obtained. The resulting high-dimensional representation is then compressed into an RGB image, which offers great diagnostic value.