Synthetic subaperture-based angle-independent Doppler flow measurements using single-beam line field optical coherence tomography in vivo.

We demonstrate a synthetic subaperture-based angle-independent Doppler flow calculation, using a line field spectral domain optical coherence tomography system. The high speed of the system features a high phase stability over the volume, which is necessary to apply synthetic subapertures in the aperture plane. Thus, the flow component for each subaperture can be reconstructed in postprocessing. Capillary phantom and in vivo retinal imaging experiments were performed to validate and demonstrate angle-independent Doppler flow calculation. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America