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Biomedical Optics Express

  • Editor: Joseph A. Izatt
  • Vol. 1, Iss. 3 — Oct. 1, 2010
  • pp: 798–811

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Measurement of absolute blood flow velocity in outflow tract of HH18 chicken embryo based on 4D reconstruction using spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Zhenhe Ma, Aiping Liu, Xin Yin, Aaron Troyer, Kent Thornburg, Ruikang K. Wang, and Sandra Rugonyi  »View Author Affiliations


Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 798-811 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.1.000798


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Abstract

The measurement of blood-plasma absolute velocity distributions with high spatial and temporal resolution in vivo is important for the investigation of embryonic heart at its early stage of development. We introduce a novel method to measure absolute blood flow velocity based on high speed spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) and apply it to measure velocities across the heart outflow tract (OFT) of a chicken embryo (stage HH18). First, we use the OCT system to acquire 4D [(x,y,z) + t] images of the OFT in vivo. Second, we reconstruct the 4D microstructural images and obtain the orientation of the OFT at its maximum expansion, from which the centerline of the OFT is calculated based on the OFT boundary segmentation. Assuming flow is parallel to the vessel orientation, the obtained centerline indicates the flow direction. Finally, the absolute flow velocity is evaluated based on the direction given by the centerline and the axial velocity obtained from Doppler OCT. Using this method, we compare flow velocity profiles at various positions along the chicken embryo OFT.

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OCIS Codes
(170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging
(170.4500) Medical optics and biotechnology : Optical coherence tomography
(110.4155) Imaging systems : Multiframe image processing

ToC Category:
Optical Coherence Tomography

History
Original Manuscript: July 12, 2010
Revised Manuscript: August 16, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: September 7, 2010
Published: September 8, 2010

Citation
Zhenhe Ma, Aiping Liu, Xin Yin, Aaron Troyer, Kent Thornburg, Ruikang K. Wang, and Sandra Rugonyi, "Measurement of absolute blood flow velocity in outflow tract of HH18 chicken embryo based on 4D reconstruction using spectral domain optical coherence tomography," Biomed. Opt. Express 1, 798-811 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/boe/abstract.cfm?URI=boe-1-3-798


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