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Experimental study of z resolution in acousto-optical coherence tomography using random phase jumps on ultrasound and light

Optics 2013-02-07 v1

Abstract

Acousto-Optical Coherence Tomography (AOCT) is a variant of Acousto Optic Imaging (also called Ultrasound modulated Optical Tomography) that makes possible to get resolution along the ultrasound propagation axis zz. We present here new AOCT experimental results, and we study how the zz resolution depends on time step between phase jumps TϕT_\phi, or on the correlation length Δz\Delta z. By working at low resolution, we perform a quantitative comparison of the zz measurements with the theoretical Point Spread Function (PSF). We present also images recorded with different zz resolution, and we qualitatively show how the image quality varies with TϕT_\phi, or Δz\Delta z.

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@article{arxiv.1302.1343,
  title  = {Experimental study of z resolution in acousto-optical coherence tomography using random phase jumps on ultrasound and light},
  author = {Max Lesaffre and Salma Farahi and François Ramaz and Michel Gross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1343},
  year   = {2013}
}