Optical Coherence Tomography - technique and applications 0800-TOCT
What you will know after the completion of the course:
1. What is OCT and how it works.
2. What different OCT modalities there are.
3. How OCT imaging is done.
4. Why is it done that way.
5. What are the basic (and practical) parameters describing OCT imaging: axial and lateral imaging resolution, imaging sensitivity and sensitivity roll-off.
6. How OCT images look like and terminology used to describe them.
7. How OCT images are obtained.
8. What interference signal parameters can be used in OCT imaging and what kind of information about imaged objects they provide.
a. What is phase sensitive OCT imaging and how it works.
b. How to measure nanometer-scale displacements.
c. What is OCT optoretinography.
d. How to measure axial component of flow velocity.
e. What is Doppler OCT (two main modalities).
f. How to detect motion in OCT.
g. What is OCT angiography (OCTA).
h. What is polarization sensitive OCT.
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Assessment criteria
Written or oral exam during which the student answers questions connected to the knowledge presented in the lectures.
Grading criteria based on the score from the exam:
50-60% - grade: 3
60-70% - grade: 3+
70-80% - grade: 4
80-90% - grade: 4+
90-100% - grade: 5
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