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We review mathematical models describing how Optical Coherence Tomography works. Hereby, we focus on models based on Maxwell's equations and their simplifications. We highlight especially the effects of different modeling assumptions for…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-25 Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Leopold Veselka

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Amal Lahchim , Lambros Athanasiou

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

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a medical imaging modality that allows us to probe deeper substructures of skin. The state-of-the-art wound care prediction and monitoring methods are based on visual evaluation and focus on surface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Prashant Kumar , Swatantra Dhara , Ayan Gope , Jyotirmoy Chatterjee , Subhamoy Mandal

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,…

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…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography is a well-established in vivo imaging technique to assess the overall vascular morphology of tissues and is an emerging field of research for the assessment of blood flow dynamics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Cerine Lal , Hrebesh M Subhash , Sergey Alexandrov , Martin J Leahy

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an emerging technique in the field of biomedical imaging, with applications in ophthalmology, dermatology, coronary imaging etc. Due to the underlying physics, OCT images usually suffer from a granular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Ahmadreza Baghaie , Roshan M. D'souza , Zeyun Yu

Jones-matrix optical coherence tomography (JM-OCT) is an extension of OCT that provides multiple types of optical contrasts of biological and clinical samples. JM-OCT measures the spatial distribution of the Jones matrix of the sample and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Yoshiaki Yasuno

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and confocal microscopy are pivotal in retinal imaging, offering distinct advantages and limitations. In vivo OCT offers rapid, non-invasive imaging but can suffer from clarity issues and motion artifacts,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Xin Tian , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Lindsay Nicholson , Alin Achim

This paper reports on advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) for application in dermatology. Full-field OCT is a particular approach of OCT based on white-light interference microscopy. FF-OCT produces en face tomographic images by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Olivier Levecq , Arthur Davis , Hicham Azimani , David Siret , Jean-Luc Perrot , Arnaud Dubois

Integrating all optical components of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device into a single chip is a non-trivial and a challenging job. The design and development of such a lab-on-a chip will be possible only via…

At the present time Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is among the most commonly used non-invasive imaging methods for the acquisition of large volumetric scans of human retinal tissues and vasculature. To resolve decisive information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 D. Sitenko , B. Boll , C. Schnörr

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and photoacoustic tomography (PAT) are emerging non-invasive biological and medical imaging techniques. It is a recent trend in experimental science to design experiments that perform PAT and OCT imaging…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Otmar Scherzer

Inverse scattering in optical coherence tomography (OCT) seeks to recover both structural images and intrinsic tissue optical properties, including refractive index, scattering coefficient, and anisotropy. This inverse problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jinglun Yu , Yaning Wang , Wenhan Guo , Yuan Gao , Yu Sun , Jin U. Kang

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a micrometer-scale, volumetric imaging modality that has become a clinical standard in ophthalmology. OCT instruments image by raster-scanning a focused light spot across the retina, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Stefan Ploner , Siyu Chen , Jungeun Won , Lennart Husvogt , Katharina Breininger , Julia Schottenhamml , James Fujimoto , Andreas Maier

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a popular modality in ophthalmology and is also used intravascularly. Our interest in this work is OCT in the context of airway abnormalities in infants and children where the high resolution of OCT and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yining Jiao , Amy Oldenburg , Yinghan Xu , Srikamal Soundararajan , Carlton Zdanski , Julia Kimbell , Marc Niethammer

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

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

Holographic optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful imaging technique, but its ability to reveal low-reflectivity features is limited. In this study, we performed holographic OCT by incoherently averaging volumes with changing…