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Optical coherence tomography is a powerful imaging technique. Thanks to work from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this technique just got faster and more powerful, with the potential to advance intricate imaging studies of the human body.

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Figure 1: Schematic of a Fourier-domain OCT system.
Figure 2: Visualizing three-dimensional OCT images.

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Barton, J. Big images small features. Nature Photon 1, 684–685 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.237

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