Abstract
A CMOS circuit was designed and fabricated for optical coherence tomography (OCT) signal detection and processing. The circuit includes a photoreceiver, differential gain stage and lock-in amplifier based demodulator. The photoreceiver consists of a CMOS photodetector and low noise differential transimpedance amplifier which converts the optical interference signal into a voltage. The differential gain stage further amplifies the signal. The in-phase and quadrature channels of the lock-in amplifier each include an analog mixer and switched-capacitor low-pass filter with an external mixer reference signal. The interferogram envelope and phase can be extracted with this configuration, enabling Doppler OCT measurements. A sensitivity of -80 dB is achieved with faithful reproduction of the interferometric signal envelope. A sample image of finger tip is presented.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 485-489 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2008 |
Keywords
- Biomedical imaging
- CMOS analog integrated circuits
- Optical tomography
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering