In-vivo three dimensional Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography for soft and hard oral tissue measurements

Optical Coherence Tomography Based on a Continuous-wave Supercontinuum Seeded by Erbium-doped Fiber's Amplified Spontaneous Emission

“…It was experimentally shown that the CW SC could be readily applied to the OCT imaging of a human tooth sample. As a matter of fact, several high-quality works on the OCT imaging of human teeth have already been carried out with ~800-and ~1300-nm light sources [34][35][36][37]. Even if the image quality obtained with the CW SC in this work is not superior to that obtained in the previous demonstrations using conventional light sources, it can be concluded from our feasibility demonstration that higher-quality OCT images can be achieved through the further optimization and improvement of the OCT setup using a CCD spectrometer, or through the Gaussian spectral shaping of the output CW SC beam.…”