A system and method for measuring tissue motion within a living tissue of the anterior segment and aqueous outflow system of the eye in a subject are provided. Tissue movements are extracted from a plurality of images acquired from the living tissue using an optical coherence tomography system. The images may be corrected using motion compensation. To extract the tissue movements from the images, waves from a cardiac pulse or other externally induced pulses from the subject are acquired, and a pulse wave is defined for a given time, which is then correlated with a velocity wave defined for a velocity of tissue and/or fluid movement within the tissue region for the same given time. Pulsatile motion is then isolated in the tissue region from the plurality of images.