Absolute measurement of subnanometer scale vibration of cochlear partition of an excised guinea pig cochlea using spectral-domain phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Hrebesh M. Subhash; Niloy Choudhury; Steven L. Jacques; Ruikang K. Wang; Fangyi Chen; Dingjun Zha; Alfred L. Nuttall

doi:10.1117/12.907900

17 February 2012 Absolute measurement of subnanometer scale vibration of cochlear partition of an excised guinea pig cochlea using spectral-domain phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Hrebesh M. Subhash, Niloy Choudhury, Steven L. Jacques, Ruikang K. Wang, Fangyi Chen, Dingjun Zha, Alfred L. Nuttall

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Proceedings Volume 8213, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVI; 82131V (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907900
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Direct measurement of absolute vibration parameters from different locations within the mammalian organ of Corti is crucial for understanding the hearing mechanics such as how sound propagates through the cochlea and how sound stimulates the vibration of various structures of the cochlea, namely, basilar membrane (BM), recticular lamina, outer hair cells and tectorial membrane (TM). In this study we demonstrate the feasibility a modified phase-sensitive spectral domain optical coherence tomography system to provide subnanometer scale vibration information from multiple angles within the imaging beam. The system has the potential to provide depth resolved absolute vibration measurement of tissue microstructures from each of the delay-encoded vibration images with a noise floor of ~0.3nm at 200Hz.

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Hrebesh M. Subhash, Niloy Choudhury, Steven L. Jacques, Ruikang K. Wang, Fangyi Chen, Dingjun Zha, and Alfred L. Nuttall "Absolute measurement of subnanometer scale vibration of cochlear partition of an excised guinea pig cochlea using spectral-domain phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 8213, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVI, 82131V (17 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907900

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