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This chapter describes Doppler optical coherence tomography (D-OCT). This is an imaging modality that combines Doppler principles with optical coherence tomography to image tissue structure and blood flow velocity simultaneously. We will review the principle and technology of D-OCT and illustrate a few examples of its applications.
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank many of our colleagues who have contributed to the functional OCT project at the Beckman Laser Institute and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UCI, particularly the students and postdoctoral fellows whose hard work made it possible for us to review many of the exciting results in this chapter. Dr. Chen would like to acknowledge the research grants awarded from the National Institutes of Health (R01EB-00293, R01CA-91717, R01EB-10090, R01HL-105215, R01EY-021529, and P41EB-015890), the National Science Foundation (BES-86924), the Whitaker Foundation (WF-23281), and the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (Bioflip program). Institutional support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-04-0101) and the Beckman Laser Institute Endowment are also gratefully acknowledged. Dr. Chen’s e-mail address is z2chen@uci.edu.
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Chen, Z., Liu, G. (2013). Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography. In: Tuchin, V. (eds) Handbook of Coherent-Domain Optical Methods. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5176-1_20
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