Confocal microendoscopy provides real-time high resolution cellular level images via a minimally invasive procedure,
but relies on exogenous fluorophores, has a relatively limited penetration depth (100 μm) and field of view (700 μm),
and produces a high rate of detailed information to the user. A new catheter based multi-modal system has been designed
that combines confocal imaging and oblique incidence reflectometry (OIR), which is a non-invasive method capable of
rapidly extracting tissue absorption, μa, and reduced scattering, μ's, spectra from tissue. The system builds on previous
developments of a custom slit-scan multi-spectral confocal microendoscope and is designed to rapidly switch between
diffuse spectroscopy and confocal fluorescence imaging modes of operation. An experimental proof-of-principle catheter
has been developed that consists of a fiber bundle for traditional confocal fluorescence imaging and a single OIR source
fiber which is manually redirected at +/- 26 degrees. Diffusely scattered light from each orientation of the source fiber is
collected via the fiber bundle, with a frame of data representing spectra collected at a range of distances from the OIR
source point. Initial results with intralipid phantoms show good agreement to published data over the 550-650 nm
spectral range. We successfully imaged and measured the optical properties of rodent cardiac muscle.
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