Data Analysis and Signal Postprocessing for Optical Coherence Tomography

Ralston, Tyler S.; Marks, Daniel L.; Ahmad, Adeel; Boppart, Stephen A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06419-2_14

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“…Note that this scattering potential spectrum has infinite bandwidth, and thus in theory it does not matter which pass-band we choose, as each term in the sum exists everywhere, as ensured by the randomness of the {𝑥 𝑛 , 𝑧 𝑛 } 𝑁 𝑛=1 [111]. In practice, this means we can use any source bandwidth and image the sample from any angle, and we would still be able to detect the sample scatterers.…”

Section: Optical Coherence Refraction Tomography (Ocrt)mentioning

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Unified k-space theory of optical coherence tomography

Zhou,

Qian,

Dhalla

et al. 2020

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We present a general theory of optical coherence tomography (OCT), which synthesizes the fundamental concepts and implementations of OCT under a common 3D 𝑘-space framework. At the heart of this analysis is the Fourier diffraction theorem, which relates the coherent interaction between a sample and plane wave to the Ewald sphere in the 3D 𝑘-space representation of the sample. While only the axial dimension of OCT is typically analyzed in 𝑘-space, we show that embracing a fully 3D 𝑘-space formalism allows explanation of nearly every fundamental physical phenomenon or property of OCT, including contrast mechanism, resolution, dispersion, aberration, limited depth of focus, and speckle. The theory also unifies diffraction tomography, confocal microscopy, point-scanning OCT, line-field OCT, full-field OCT, Bessel-beam OCT, transillumination OCT, interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM), and optical coherence refraction tomography (OCRT), among others. Our unified theory not only enables clear understanding of existing techniques, but also suggests new research directions to continue advancing the field of OCT.

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Section: Optical Coherence Refraction Tomography (Ocrt)mentioning

confidence: 99%