Aberration-diverse optical coherence tomography for suppression of multiple scattering and speckle
Aberration-diverse optical coherence tomography for suppression of multiple scattering and speckle
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DOI:
10.1364/boe.9.004919
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发表时间:
2018-10-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Adie, Steven G.
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作者:
Liu, Siyang;Lamont, Michael R. E.;Adie, Steven G.
Multiple scattering is a major barrier that limits the optical imaging depth in scattering media. In order to alleviate this effect, we demonstrate aberration-diverse optical coherence tomography (AD-OCT), which exploits the phase correlation between the deterministic signals from single-scattered photons to suppress the random background caused by multiple scattering and speckle. AD-OCT illuminates the sample volume with diverse aberrated point spread functions, and computationally removes these intentionally applied aberrations. After accumulating 12 astigmatism-diverse OCT volumes, we show a 10 dB enhancement in signal-to-background ratio via a coherent average of reconstructed signals from a USAF target located 7.2 scattering mean free paths below a thick scattering layer, and a 3x speckle contrast reduction from an incoherent average of reconstructed signals inside the scattering layer. This AD-OCT method, when implemented using astigmatic illumination, is a promising approach for ultra-deep volumetric optical coherence microscopy. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement