Imaging Brain Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease by Contrast-Enhanced Optical Coherence Tomography

Authors :: Antonia Lichtenegger
Danielle J. Harper
Thomas Roetzer
Martina Muck
Bernhard Baumann
Pablo Eugui
Adelheid Woehrer
Christoph K. Hitzenberger
Marco Augustin
Source :: Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science.
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: OSA, 2018.
Abstract: We present three approaches for using optical coherence tomography (OCT) to visualize neuritic plaques in Alzheimer’s disease based on intrinsic optical properties, namely their birefringence, spectroscopic characteristics and scattering profile.

Subjects :: Materials science
Birefringence
genetic structures
medicine.diagnostic_test
Scattering
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Imaging brain
eye diseases
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Optical coherence tomography
Neuroimaging
medicine
Contrast (vision)
sense organs
Senile plaques
Photonic-crystal fiber
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