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Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution visualization of coronary vessel anatomy but presents challenges due to noise, imaging artifacts, and complex tissue structures. This paper proposes a fully automated…

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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive depth resolved optical imaging modality, that enables high resolution, cross-sectional imaging in biological tissues and materials at clinically relevant depths. Though OCT offers high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Cerine Lal , Sergey Alexandrov , Sweta Rani , Yi Zhou , Thomas Ritter , Martin Leahy

A recent advance in optical coherence tomography (OCT), termed swept-source OCT, is generalized into a new technique, Fourier-domain OCT. It represents a realization of a full-field OCT system in place of the conventional serial image…

We present a computational method for full-range interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) under dispersion encoding. With this, one can effectively double the depth range of optical coherence tomography (OCT), whilst…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Jonathan H. Mason , Mike E. Davies , Pierre O. Bagnaninchi

Multiple scattering is one of the main factors that limits the penetration depth of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in scattering samples. We propose a method termed multi-focus averaging (MFA) to suppress the multiple-scattering signals…

Non-contact measurement of the refractive index and thickness of multilayer biological tissues is of great significance for biomedical applications and can greatly improve medical diagnosis and treatment. In this work, we introduce a…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-19 Yu-Lin Ku , Yao-Gen Shu

Clinical tracking systems are popular but typically require specific tracking markers. During the last years, scanning speed of optical coherence tomography (OCT) has increased to A-scan rates above 1 MHz allowing to acquire volume scans of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Matthias Schlüter , Christoph Otte , Thore Saathoff , Nils Gessert , Alexander Schlaefer

For optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images, a limited scanning rate leads to a trade-off between field-of-view (FOV) and imaging resolution. Although larger FOV images may reveal more parafoveal vascular lesions, their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Weiwen Zhang , Dawei Yang , Haoxuan Che , An Ran Ran , Carol Y. Cheung , Hao Chen

We demonstrate an ultrahigh-speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) based on a 100 MHz swept source (SS). An all polarization-maintaining figure-9 mode-locked fiber laser is used as the seed laser. After nonlinear spectral expansion in an…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-03 Dongmei Huang , Feng Li , Zihao Cheng , Xinhuan Feng , P. K. A. Wai

Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) segmentation is essential for diagnosing pathology. Traditional methods focus on either spatial or spectral domains, overlooking their combined dependencies. We propose a triple-encoder network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Kristin Qi , Xinhan Di

Optical Coherence Tomography is a technique used to scan the Retina of the eye and check for tears. In this paper, we develop a Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for OCT scan classification. The model is trained to detect Retinal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Adit Magotra , Aagat Gedam , Tanush Savadi , Emily Li

Fast and accurate 3D position detection in optical tweezers (OT) is essential for quantitatively monitoring subtle variations in the mechanical properties of microscopic systems ranging from biomolecules to cells and colloids. Because…

Dispersion is a common phenomenon in optics due to the frequency dependence of the refractive index in polychromatic light. This issue, if left untreated in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, leads to signal broadening of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Shangbang Luo , Guy Holland , Eric Mikula , Samantha Bradford , Reza Khazaeinezhad , James V Jester , Tibor Juhasz

The treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) requires continuous eye exams using optical coherence tomography (OCT). The need for treatment is determined by the presence or change of disease-specific OCT-based biomarkers.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Timo Kepp , Helge Sudkamp , Claus von der Burchard , Hendrik Schenke , Peter Koch , Gereon Hüttmann , Johann Roider , Mattias P. Heinrich , Heinz Handels

Full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography (FF-SS-OCT) and laser Doppler holography (LDH) are two holographic imaging techniques presenting unique capabilities for ophthalmology. We report on interlaced FF-SS-OCT and LDH imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Léo Puyo , Hendrik Spahr , Clara Pfäffle , Gereon Hüttmann , Dierck Hillmann

Computational corrections of defocus and aberrations in optical coherence tomography (OCT) offers a promising approach to realize high-resolution imaging with deep imaging depth, but without additional high hardware costs. However, these…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shuichi Makita , Naoki Fukutake , Lida Zhu , Yoshiaki Yasuno

Non-destructive testing (NDT) is crucial for ensuring product quality and safety across various industries. Conventional methods such as ultrasonic, terahertz, and X-ray imaging have limitations in terms of probe-contact requirement, depth…

High-numerical-aperture optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables sub-cellular imaging but faces a trade-off between lateral resolution and depth of focus. Computational refocusing can correct defocus in Fourier-domain OCT, yet its…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Yue Zhu , Shuichi Makita , Naoki Fukutake , Yoshiaki Yasuno

The optic nerve head represents the intraocular section of the optic nerve (ONH), which is prone to damage by intraocular pressure. The advent of optical coherence tomography (OCT) has enabled the evaluation of novel optic nerve head…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique that can produce images of the eye at the microscopic level. OCT image segmentation to localise retinal layer boundaries is a fundamental procedure for diagnosing and…

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