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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) microscope (OCM) uses a high-numerical-aperture objective to achieve cellular-level lateral resolution. However, its practical imaging depth range is limited by the depth of focus (DOF). Although…

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

Significance: Speckle has historically been considered a source of noise in coherent light imaging. However, a number of works in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging have shown that speckle patterns may contain relevant information…

We report on a technically simple approach to achieve high-resolution and high-sensitivity Fourier-domain OCT imaging in the mid-infrared range. The proposed OCT system employs an InF3 supercontinuum source. A specially designed dispersive…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ivan Zorin , Paul Gattinger , Andrii Prylepa , Bettina Heise

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful and noninvasive method for retinal imaging. In this paper, we introduce a fast segmentation method based on a new variant of spectral graph theory named diffusion maps. The research is…

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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) was originally conceived as a volumetric imaging method. Quickly, OCT images went beyond structural data and started to provide functional information about an object enabling for example visualization of…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proven to be a powerful technique for studying tissue morphology in ophthalmology, cardiology, and endomicroscopy. Its performance is limited by the fundamental trade-off between the imaging…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-27 Keisuke Goda , Daniel R. Solli , Bahram Jalali

This paper aims to evaluate mid-infrared (MIR) Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems as a tool to penetrate different materials and detect sub-surface irregularities. This is useful for monitoring production processes, allowing…

Acousto-Optical Coherence Tomography (AOCT) is variant of Acousto Optic Imaging (called also ultrasonic modulation imaging) that makes possible to get z resolution with acoustic and optic Continuous Wave (CW) beams. We describe here…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Max Lesaffre , Salma Farahi , A. C. Boccara , François Ramaz , Michel Gross

High-resolution optical imaging methods, such as confocal microscopy and full-field optical coherence tomography, capture flat optical sections of the sample. If the sample is curved, the optical field sections through several sample layers…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Viacheslav Mazlin , Kristina Irsch , Michel Paques , Mathias Fink , Albert Claude Boccara

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…

Visible photonic integrated circuits underpin applications ranging from AR/VR to quantum control, yet lack a high-resolution, nondestructive diagnostic comparable to the optical frequency-domain reflectometry used in infrared silicon…

Endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a valuable tool for providing diagnostic images of internal organs and guiding interventions in real time. Miniaturized OCT endoscopes are essential for imaging small and convoluted luminal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-28 Chao Xu , Xin Guan , Syeda Aimen Abbasi , Neng Xia , To Ngai , Li Zhang , Ho-Pui Ho , Sze Hang Calvin Ng , Wu Yuan

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

Imaging airway tissue, optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides cross-sectional images of tissue structures, shows cilia movement and mucus secretion, but does not provide sufficient contrast to differentiate individual cells. By using…

Currently, diagnosis of skin diseases is based primarily on visual pattern recognition skills and expertise of the physician observing the lesion. Even though dermatologists are trained to recognize patterns of morphology, it is still a…

Images recorded below the surface of a finger can have more details and be of higher quality than the conventional surface fingerprint images. This is particularly true when the quality of the surface fingerprints is compromised by, for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Egidijus Auksorius , A. Claude Boccara

A new formulation of lateral imaging process of point-scanning optical coherence tomography (OCT) and a new differential contrast method designed by using this formulation are presented. The formulation is based on a mathematical sample…

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

Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT) is a non-invasive technique capturing cross-sectional area of the retina in micro-meter resolutions. It has been widely used as a auxiliary imaging reference to detect eye-related pathology and predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Shuo Chen , Da Ma , Sieun Lee , Timothy T. L. Yu , Gavin Xu , Donghuan Lu , Karteek Popuri , Myeong Jin Ju , Marinko V. Sarunic , Mirza Faisal Beg