| CPC A61B 3/102 (2013.01) [A61B 3/0091 (2013.01); A61B 3/10 (2013.01); A61B 3/1241 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 5/1128 (2013.01); A61B 5/6814 (2013.01); A61B 5/7207 (2013.01); A61B 5/721 (2013.01); A61B 5/7214 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |

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1. A computer-based method of adaptively scanning a sample in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging to eliminate motion artifact during acquisition, the method comprising:
acquiring, via an OCT scanner, an OCT B-scan at a fast-scan location;
acquiring, via the OCT scanner, an OCT angiography (OCTA) B-scan at the fast-scan location, wherein the OCTA B-scan indicates variation in repeated OCT B-scans at the fast-scan location;
calculating, while the OCT scanner is at the fast-scan location, an indicator of at least one of eye blinking from the OCT B-scan or eye motion from the OCTA B-scan;
maintaining the OCT scanner at the fast-scan location based on the calculated indicator, wherein the maintaining includes interrupting a progress of a slow-scan axis galvanometer mirror and maintaining the slow-scan axis galvanometer mirror at its current position; and
re-scanning the sample at the fast-scan location via the OCT scanner until the calculated indicator indicates that the at least one of the eye blinking or eye motion has finished.
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