Review of intraoperative optical coherence tomography: technology and applications [Invited]

• Published in: Biomedical optics express Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 1607 - 1637
• Main Authors: Carrasco-Zevallos, Oscar M, Viehland, Christian, Keller, Brenton, Draelos, Mark, Kuo, Anthony N, Toth, Cynthia A, Izatt, Joseph A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Optical Society of America 01.03.2017
• Subjects: (110.4500) Optical coherence tomography; (170.0110) Imaging systems

During microsurgery, imaging of the surgical field through the operating microscope limits the surgeon's depth perception and visualization of instruments and sub-surface anatomy. Surgical procedures outside microsurgery, such as breast tumor resections, may also benefit from visualization of t...