Hemoglobin contrast in magnetomotive optical Doppler tomography

Jeehyun Kim, Junghwan Oh, Thomas E. Milner, J. Stuart Nelson

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Abstract

We introduce a novel contrast mechanism for imaging blood flow by use of magnetomotive optical Doppler tomography (MM-ODT), which combines an externally applied temporally oscillating high-strength magnetic field with ODT to detect erythrocytes moving according to the field gradient. Hemoglobin contrast was demonstrated in a capillary tube filled with moving blood by imaging the Doppler frequency shift, which was observed independently of blood flow rate and direction. Results suggest that MM-ODT may be a promising technique with which to image blood flow.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)778-780
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume31
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

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