Line Field Optical Coherence Tomography

The line field (LF) design choice for the lateral image formation mechanism (lateral format) has historically been a fraction of whole optical coherence tomography (OCT) field. However, as OCT technology develops, parallelised acquisition LF-OCT formats (LF-time domain (TD)-OCT, LF-spectral (SD)-OCT, LF-swept source (SS)-OCT) offers benefits and capabilities, which may mean it is now becoming more mainstream. Prior reviews on have focused scanning point (SP) and, to lesser extent, full (FF), formats, with, our knowledge, no prior review specifically LF format. Here, we address this gap in literature by reviewing history each format, identifying applications had providing generic system overviews. We then provide an analysis discussion drawbacks