Abstract

To achieve accurate selection and synchronous imaging of blood vessels and lymph, a speckle spectrum contrast method (SSC) based on spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is proposed in this Letter. In this method, the time-lapse optical coherence tomography (OCT) intensity signal is transformed to the Fourier frequency domain. By analyzing the frequency spectrum of the time-lapse OCT intensity signal, a parameter called SSC signal, which represents the ratio of different intervals of the high frequency to the low frequency, is utilized to extract and contrast different types of the vessels in the biological tissues. In the SSC spectrum, the SSC signals of the static tissue, lymphatic vessels, and vascular vessels can be separated in three different frequency intervals, enabling differentiation and synchronous imaging of the lymphatic-vascular vessels. A mouse ear was used to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of this method. By using the SSC signal as the imaging parameter, the lymphatic and blood vessels of the mouse ear are differentiated and visualized simultaneously. This study shows the feasibility of the three-dimensional (3D) synchronous angio-lymphography based on the SSC method, which provides a tool to improve the understanding for disease research and treatment.

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