Doppler OCT Movies of the Blood Flow in the Vessels of a Frog Tadpole (Xenopuslaveis)

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Doppler OCT can perform fast imaging of structural and functional parameters of tissue, at near-microscopic resolution and with perfusion-level blood flow sensitivity. In this example, we use a time-domain DOCT system to image the blood flow dynamics in the vessels leading to the heart of a developing African clawed frog tadpole (Xenopus Laevis). DOCT's ability to image and quantify blood flow dynamics will be important for developmental biology, early disease detection, and treatment monitoring studies. For corresponding structural images, see movie 1, same album.

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