ArticleScience advances2019
Optical fiber bundles: Ultra-slim light field imaging probes.
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Three-Dimensional Displacement Measurement of Micro-Milling Tool Based on Fiber Array Encoding.Micromachines · 2023Article
- Endoscopic image-guided laser treatment system based on fiber bundle laser steering.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Targeted photothrombotic subcortical small vessel occlusion using in vivo real-time fiber bundle endomicroscopy in mice.Biomedical optics express · 2023Article
- Honeycomb Artifact Removal Using Convolutional Neural Network for Fiber Bundle Imaging.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Learned end-to-end high-resolution lensless fiber imaging towards real-time cancer diagnosis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Real-time holographic lensless micro-endoscopy through flexible fibers via fiber bundle distal holography.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Biomechanical Sensing Using Gas Bubbles Oscillations in Liquids and Adjacent Technologies: Theory and Practical Applications.Biosensors · 2022Review
- Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope.Light, science & applications · 2022Article
- Polarization-dependent photonic crystal fiber optical filters enabled by asymmetric metasurfaces.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2022Article
- Real-time complex light field generation through a multi-core fiber with deep learning.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Three-dimensional light-field microendoscopy with a GRIN lens array.Biomedical optics express · 2022Article
- Fiber-optic large-depth 3D chromatic confocal endomicroscopy.Biomedical optics express · 2022Article
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Abstract
Optical fiber bundle microendoscopes are widely used for visualizing hard-to-reach areas of the human body. These ultrathin devices often forgo tunable focusing optics because of size constraints and are therefore limited to two-dimensional (2D) imaging modalities. Ideally, microendoscopes would record 3D information for accurate clinical and biological interpretation, without bulky optomechanical parts. Here, we demonstrate that the optical fiber bundles commonly used in microendoscopy are inherently sensitive to depth information. We use the mode structure within fiber bundle cores to extract the spatio-angular description of captured light rays-the light field-enabling digital refocusing, stereo visualization, and surface and depth mapping of microscopic scenes at the distal fiber tip. Our work opens a route for minimally invasive clinical microendoscopy using standard bare fiber bundle probes. Unlike coherent 3D multimode fiber imaging techniques, our incoherent approach is single shot and resilient to fiber bending, making it attractive for clinical adoption.
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