ABC-OCT – A Cross-Platform Implementation of Real-Time Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Hari Nandakumar; Shailesh Srivastava

doi:10.5334/jors.272

Abstract

ABC-OCT, Affordable B-scan Camera-based Optical Coherence Tomography, implements Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography with real-time display using cross-platform C++ and the OpenCV framework. The software can be compiled using current versions of GCC for *nix/Mac and Microsoft®Visual Studio for Windows. Full functionality of ABC-OCT needs the camera SDK from QHYCCD and a QHYCCD camera to be connected; but the code can be easily modified to support other camera drivers, as is shown by an included demo version which can use any installed webcam. The code is made available under the MIT license. The software is available from GitHub (https://github.com/hn-88/FDOCT).

Funding statement: This work has not been funded by any grants.

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ABC-OCT – A Cross-Platform Implementation of Real-Time Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

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