光学相干断层扫描(OCT)是一种干涉成像技术,自1990年代上半年以来,它彻底改变了临床眼科。尽管这种方法已成功应用于眼科,并在法医案件中具有巨大潜力,它在不同法医领域的使用似乎相当有限。在这篇综述中,我们回顾了1995年至2019年有关OCT在法医学和法律医学中应用的科学文献。我们的研究表明,这种方法对冠状动脉损伤的研究是有用的,死后眼部变化,法医昆虫学,以及其他一些具有特殊法医学意义的应用(血迹的研究,指纹,和用于个人身份识别的发球,以及对犯罪现场发现的材料进行比较的研究,或反欺诈调查)。病理学家创建特定的“临时”设备和更好地了解此类技术将是继续发展OCT法医领域使用的基本步骤。
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an interferometric imaging technique that has revolutionized clinical ophthalmology since the first half of the 1990\'s. Despite this approach being successfully employed in ophthalmology and having great potential in forensic cases, its use in different forensic fields appears to be quite limited. In this review we reviewed the scientific literature regarding the application of OCT in forensic science and legal medicine from 1995 to 2019. Our research showed the usefulness of this approach for the study of coronary injuries, postmortem ocular changes, forensic entomology, and several other applications of specific forensic interest (the study of blood stains, fingerprints, and hair bulbs for personal identification, as well as the study of materials found in the crime scene for comparation, or anti-fraud investigation). The creation of specific \'ad hoc\' devices and a better knowledge of this type of technology by pathologists will be a fundamental step to continue to develop the use of OCT forensic fields.