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Current capabilities and challenges for optical coherence tomography as a high impact non-destructive imaging modality

Bradu, Adrian and Marques, Mamuel and Rivet, Sylvain and Podoleanu, Adrian (2018) Current capabilities and challenges for optical coherence tomography as a high impact non-destructive imaging modality. In: Todea, Carmen C. and Podoleanu, A.G. and Duma, Virgil-Florin, eds. Seventh International Conference on Lasers in Medicine. Proceedings of SPIE, 19 (59). SPIE. ISBN 978-1-5106-2287-6. E-ISBN 978-1-5106-2288-3. (doi:10.1117/12.2281502) (KAR id:68717)

Abstract

Non-destructive sensing and imaging within the body of materials is essential for quality control and very importantly for the development of new materials, equally for industrial and medical applications. Conventional non-destructive testing (NDT) methods, such us ultrasound, exhibit low imaging resolutions, of hundreds of microns and typically require a direct contact between the probe and the sample to be investigated. The speed at which the standard NDT methods performs is also quite restricted. The development of optical coherence tomography (OCT) applications in the field of NDT have grown immensely over the past years, offering faster, higher resolution images in a completely contactless environment with the sample. Optical Coherence Tomography brings a plethora of benefits to the current non-destructive methods. However, a multitude of challenges still need to be overcome to truly make OCT the technique of choice for NDT applications. In this paper, a short overview of the main challenging of producing cross-sectional, transversal and volumetric OCT images are presented with an emphasize on OCT’s capabilities and limitations in producing images in real-time. Real-time OCT images of various samples produced using the Master/Slave technique developed within the Applied Optics Group at the University of Kent are demonstrated.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1117/12.2281502
Uncontrolled keywords: Optical coherence tomography, non-destructive testing
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics > QC355 Optics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Adrian Podoleanu
Date Deposited: 20 Aug 2018 12:20 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 03:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/68717 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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