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Three-dimensional imaging of biological cells is crucial for the investigation of cell biology, provide valuable information to reveal the mechanisms behind pathophysiology of cells and tissues. Recent advances in optical diffraction…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Kyoohyun Kim , Jonghee Yoon , Seungwoo Shin , SangYun Lee , Su-A Yang , YongKeun Park

We demonstrate that polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) is suitable to map the stress distribution within materials in a contactless and non-destructive way. In contrast to transmission photoelasticity measurements…

Many biological and soft matter processes occur at high speeds in complex 3D environments, and developing imaging techniques capable of elucidating their dynamics is an outstanding experimental challenge. Here, we introduce Fourier…

Mid-infrared light scatters much less than shorter wavelengths, allowing greatly enhanced penetration depths for optical imaging techniques such as optical coherence tomography (OCT). However, both detection and broadband sources in the…

There is an increasing need for label free methods that could reveal intracellular structures and dynamics. In this context, we develop a new optical tomography method working in transmission - Full-field optical transmission tomography…

Flow cytometry is a powerful quantitative assay supporting high-throughput collection of single-cell data with a high dynamic range. For flow cytometry to yield reproducible data with a quantitative relationship to the underlying biology,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-16 Jacob Beal

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging modality that extends the functionality of OCT by extracting moving red blood cell signals from surrounding static biological tissues. OCTA has emerged as a valuable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Jinpeng Liao , Tianyu Zhang , Yilong Zhang , Chunhui Li , Zhihong Huang

In Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), the finite bandwidth of the acquisition electronics constrains the depth range and speed of the system. Circular-ranging (CR) OCT methods use optical-domain compression to surpass this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Norman Lippok , Brett E. Bouma , Benjamin J. Vakoc

While optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides a resolution down to 1 micrometer it has difficulties to visualize cellular structures due to a lack of scattering contrast. By evaluating signal fluctuations, a significant contrast…

Recovering both amplitude and phase information from a system is a fundamental goal of optical imaging. At the same time, it is crucial to operate at low photon doses to avoid altering the sample, particularly in biological applications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Alberto Paniate , Giuseppe Ortolano , Sarika Soman , Marco Genovese , Ivano Ruo-Berchera

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

In this paper, we propose the use of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging for the problem of iris presentation attack (PA) detection. We assess its viability by comparing its performance with respect to traditional iris imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Renu Sharma , Arun Ross

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) is a powerful technique for quantitative, label-free reconstruction of the three-dimensional refractive index (RI) distribution of biological samples. While ODT is well established for imaging thin,…

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel noninvasive imaging modality for visualization of retinal blood flow in the human retina. Using specific OCTA imaging biomarkers for the identification of pathologies, automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Anna Breger , Felix Goldbach , Bianca S. Gerendas , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Martin Ehler

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,…

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…

We introduce a phase imaging mechanism for scanning transmission electron microscopy that exploits the complementary intensity changes of transmitted disks at different scattering angles. For scanning transmission electron microscopy, this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-06 Binbin Wang , David W. McComb

Speckle is an intrinsic pattern in optical coherence tomography (OCT) that obscures fine image features and degrades effective resolution. In this study, we propose a numerical speckle reduction method based on the dispersed scatterer model…

Background: Cervical cancer seriously affects the health of the female reproductive system. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) emerged as a non-invasive, high-resolution imaging technology for cervical disease detection. However, OCT image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Kaiyi Chen , Qingbin Wang , Yutao Ma

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technology which can provide micrometer-resolution cross-sectional images of the inner structures of the eye. It is widely used for the diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Donghuan Lu , Morgan Heisler , Da Ma , Setareh Dabiri , Sieun Lee , Gavin Weiguang Ding , Marinko V. Sarunic , Mirza Faisal Beg