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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…

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

Fiber-form optics extends the high-resolution tomographic imaging capabilities of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to the inside of the human body, i.e., endoscopic OCT. However, it still faces challenges due to the trade-off between…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-04 Chengfu Gu , Haoran Zhang , Qi Lan , Weiyi Zhang , Chang Liu , Jianlong Yang

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is being increasingly adopted as a label-free and non-invasive technique for biomedical applications such as cancer and ocular disease diagnosis. Diagnostic information for these tissues is manifest in…

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) provides a unique ability to image the eye retina in 3D at micrometer resolution and gives ophthalmologist the ability to visualize retinal diseases such as Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Stefanos Apostolopoulos , Carlos Ciller , Sandro I. De Zanet , Sebastian Wolf , Raphael Sznitman

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an established imaging technology for in vivo skin investigation. Topical application of gold nanoshells (GNS) provides contrast enhancement in OCT by generating a strong hyperreflective signal from…

We present a benchmark pilot study in which high-resolution Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FF-OCT) is used to image human breast tissue and is evaluated to assess its ability to aid the pathologist's management of intra-operative…

Optomechanics, the study of the mechanical interaction of light with matter, has proven to be a fruitful area of research that has yielded many notable achievements, including the direct detection of gravitational waves in kilometer-scale…

Purpose: This study explores the feasibility of using generative machine learning (ML) to translate Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images into Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) images, potentially bypassing the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Rashadul Hasan Badhon , Atalie Carina Thompson , Jennifer I. Lim , Theodore Leng , Minhaj Nur Alam

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a powerful tool for biomedical studies. It achieves 3D visualization of mesoscopic biological samples with high spatial resolution using conventional tomographic-reconstruction algorithms. However,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 Yan Liu , Jonathan Dong , Thanh-an Pham , François Marelli , Michael Unser

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and confocal microscopy are pivotal in retinal imaging, each presenting unique benefits and limitations. In-vivo OCT offers rapid, non-invasive imaging but can be hampered by clarity issues and motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Xin Tian , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Lindsay Nicholson , Alin Achim

One of the greatest needs in modern ophthalmology is access to the eye choroid in vivo. Without it, it is difficult to introduce new therapies and to understand most of the pathological changes in the eye, because of the total blood flow in…

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 $z$. We present here new…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-07 Max Lesaffre , Salma Farahi , François Ramaz , Michel Gross

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

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables the acquisition of high-resolution, three-dimensional fingerprint data, capturing rich subsurface structures for robust biometric recognition. However, the high cost and time-consuming nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Qingran Miao , Haixia Wang , Haohao Sun , Yilong Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel concept for a multi-channel swept source optical coherence tomography (OCT) system based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs). At the core of this concept is a low-loss polarization dependent path routing…

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is an imaging technique that allows for non-invasive investigation of the microvasculature in the retina. OCTA uses laser light reflectance to measure moving blood cells. Hereby, it visualizes…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-11 Astrid M. E. Engberg , Vedrana A. Dahl , Anders B. Dahl

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a noninvasive technology that enables real-time imaging of tissue microanatomies. The axial resolution of OCT is intrinsically constrained by the spectral bandwidth of the employed light source while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Kaiyan Li , Jingyuan Yang , Wenxuan Liang , Xingde Li , Chenxi Zhang , Lulu Chen , Chan Wu , Xiao Zhang , Zhiyan Xu , Yuelin Wang , Lihui Meng , Yue Zhang , Youxin Chen , S. Kevin Zhou

We present an experimental demonstration of quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT). The technique makes use of an entangled twin-photon light source to carry out axial optical sectioning. QOCT is compared to conventional optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Magued B. Nasr , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Alexander V. Sergienko , Malvin C. Teich