Multiscale OCT Imaging for High-Throughput Assessment of Oocytes and Embryos
Camard et al., Optical Coherence Tomography, 2024
Abstract
We present a multiscale imaging system in which a conventional microscope stand is inserted in the sample arm of a Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Microscopy (SD-OCM) system. The instrument was designed to facilitate localisation and maturity assessment of oocytes and early-stage embryos to be used for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), by a versatile and easy switch of microscope objectives. The dispersion variation due to change of the microscope objectives is dealt with by employing the Complex Master Slave procedure that enables correct operation without the use of matching glass in the reference arm for dispersion compensation.