Fig. 1From: Visualizing cortical blood perfusion after photothrombotic stroke in vivo by needle-shaped beam optical coherence tomography angiographyPrinciple of NB-OCTA with a customized DOE. a DOE phase pattern for an NB composed of multiple phases to generate m foci. b x–z (left two) profiles of a 620 μm NB generated by DOE and the Gaussian beam generated solely by the objective. And x–y (right two) profiles of the NB and GB at different depth positions. c Experimental setup of the NB-OCTA system, with customized DOE in the sample arm. DC, dispersion compensatorBack to article page