Optical coherence tomography device, optical coherence tomography calculation method, and optical coherence tomography calculation program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11071452-B2
Application number	US-201514753927-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2015
Priority date	Jun 30, 2014
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an optical coherence tomography (OCT) including: an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling correlation between images to be easily performed; more specifically it relates to a case where a functional OCT image such as a motion contrast is acquired by using the OCT; acquiring the functional OCT image through a calculation process of an OCT signal is a time-consuming process, for this reason, a long time elapses until the point that a functional OCT image can be observed after OCT imaging is completed, and thus this causes stress to a subject and an examiner; the present disclosure provides an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling a functional OCT image to be rapidly acquired and enables an examiner to easily perform diagnosis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An optical coherence tomography (OCT) device comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing a computer program, when executed by the processor, causing:
an acquisition unit of the OCT device to acquire a plurality of OCT signals which are temporally different from each other with respect to a same position on a test substance for each of a plurality of positions on the test substance;
a calculation unit of the OCT device to process the plurality of OCT signals acquired at the plurality of positions on the test substance so as to acquire three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data of the test substance;
an image processing unit of the OCT device to generate OCT images corresponding to the respective OCT signals acquired at a same scanning line and determining motion contrast data based on a similarity threshold correspondence between the OCT images based on which the motion contrast data is generated; and
control of the acquisition unit to perform re-imaging when the similarity threshold correspondence is not obtained in the image processing.

2. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the acquisition unit acquires the plurality of OCT signals at a first position on the test substance and then acquires the plurality of OCT signals at a second position which is different from the first position, and
wherein the calculation unit processes the plurality of OCT signals acquired at the first position so as to acquire motion contrast data at the first position while the acquisition unit acquires the plurality of OCT signals at either or both of the first position and the second position.

3. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the first position is a first crossing position, and the second position is a second crossing position, and
wherein the calculation unit processes the plurality of OCT signals acquired at the first crossing position so as to acquire motion contrast data at the first crossing position while the plurality of OCT signals are acquired at either or both of the first crossing position and the second crossing position.

4. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the acquisition unit scans, with measurement light, a plurality of different crossing positions of the test substance so as to acquire the OCT signal for acquiring three-dimensional motion contrast data regarding XY directions, and
wherein the calculation unit processes OCT signals at the plurality of crossing positions so as to acquire the three-dimensional motion contrast data.

5. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 2 ,
wherein acquisition unit scans, with measurement light at a plurality of different crossing positions of the test substance so as to acquire the OCT signal for acquiring three-dimensional motion contrast data regarding XY directions,
wherein the calculation unit processes OCT signals at the plurality of crossing positions so as to acquire the three-dimensional motion contrast data, and
wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, further causes:
an analysis processing unit to sequentially acquire the three-dimensional motion contrast data, sequentially acquiring OCT motion contrast enface image data which is enface image data in a predetermined depth region of the test substance based on the three-dimensional motion contrast data, and sequentially displaying the OCT motion contrast enface image data at each crossing position on a display unit to display real-time OCT motion contrast enface image data on the display unit.

6. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the calculation unit processes the plurality of acquired OCT signals so as to acquire motion contrast data of a subject's eye, and
wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, further causes:
an analysis processing unit to process the acquired motion contrast data so as to acquire position information of a blood vessel, and acquiring analysis information regarding the blood vessel based on the position information.

7. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the analysis processing unit processes the motion contrast data as the analysis information so as to determine whether or not the blood vessel is present, and acquires the analysis information based on a determination result.

8. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 7 ,
wherein the analysis processing unit processes the motion contrast data so as to determine whether or not the blood vessel is present in a region in a depth direction of the motion contrast data, and acquires analysis information based on a determination result.

9. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the acquisition unit scans, with measurement light, a plurality of different crossing positions on the subject's eye so as to acquire the OCT signal for acquiring three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data regarding XY directions,
wherein the calculation unit processes the plurality of OCT signals acquired at the plurality of crossing positions on the subject's eye so as to acquire the three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data as the motion contrast data of the subject's eye, and
wherein the analysis processing unit processes the three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data so as to acquire analysis information regarding a blood vessel for each position on the subject's eye as the analysis information, acquires OCT motion contrast enface image data which is the enface image data in a predetermined depth region of the test substance based on the three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data, and outputs the OCT motion contrast enface image data and the analysis information in such a manner that the OCT motion contrast enface image data can be compared with the analysis information.

10. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 9 ,
wherein the analysis processing unit divides the three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data into a plurality of regions so as to determine whether or not the blood vessel is present in each divided region for each divided region, and acquires analysis information based on a determination result.

11. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the acquisition unit scans, with measurement light, a plurality of different crossing positions on the subject's eye so as to acquire an OCT signal for acquiring three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data regarding XY directions,
wherein the calculation unit processes the plurality of OCT signals acquired at the plurality of crossing positions on the subject's eye so as to acquire the three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data as the motion contrast data of the subject's eye, and
wherein the analysis processing unit processes the three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data so as to acquire analysis information regarding a blood vessel for each position on the subject's eye as the analysis information, and displays the three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data and the analysis information in such a manner that the three-dimensional OCT motion contrast data can be compared with the analysis information.

12. The optical coherence tomography device according to claim 1 , wherein when the image processing unit determines that the motion contrast data is not appropriate, the acquisition unit causes the optical coherence tomography device to acquire the plurality of OCT signals again at the position where motion contrast data is determined not to be appropriate.

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Assignees

• Nidek Kk

Inventors

• Satake Norimasa
• Higuchi Yukihiro
• Murase Yuji
• Furuuchi Yasuhiro
• Namiki Hajime
• Isogai Naoki
• Hanebuchi Masaaki
• Takeno Naoki

Classifications

• G06T7/0016

  involving temporal comparison · CPC title

• G06T2207/10101

  Optical tomography; Optical coherence tomography [OCT] · CPC title

• A61B3/102 Primary

  for optical coherence tomography [OCT] · CPC title

• G06T2207/30041

  Eye; Retina; Ophthalmic · CPC title