Cellular resolution optical coherence microscopy with high acquisition speed for in-vivo human skin volumetric imaging.

In this Letter, we report for the first time (to our knowledge) in-vivo volumetric optical coherence microscopy images of skin epidermal cells. We achieved micrometer-class resolution, 2 μm laterally and axially, with an acquisition speed of 23 K A-scans/s and over 90 dB sensitivity to a depth of 1 mm by employing a custom, liquid-lens-based, dynamic-focusing objective, a broadband light source, and a custom, astigmatism-corrected Czerny-Turner spectrometer with a high-speed complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor camera.

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