Combining Gabor and Talbot bands techniques to enhance the sensitivity with depth in Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Adrian Bradu; Manuel J. Marques; Petr Bouchal; Adrian Gh. Podoleanu

doi:10.1117/12.2003983

20 March 2013 Combining Gabor and Talbot bands techniques to enhance the sensitivity with depth in Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Adrian Bradu, Manuel J. Marques, Petr Bouchal, Adrian Gh. Podoleanu

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Proceedings Volume 8571, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVII; 857136 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2003983
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to show how to favorably mix two e_ects to improve the sensitivity with depth in Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (OCT): Talbot bands (TB) and Gabor-based fusion (GF) technique. TB operation is achieved by directing the two beams, from the object arm and from the reference arm in the OCT interferometer, along parallel separate paths towards the spectrometer. By changing the lateral gap between the two beams in their path towards the spectrometer, the position for the maximum sensitivity versus the optical path difference in the interferometer is adjusted. For five values of the focus position, the gap between the two beams is readjusted to reach maximum sensitivity. Then, similar to the procedure employed in the GF technique, a composite image is formed by edging together the parts of the five images that exhibited maximum brightness. The combined procedure, TB/GF is examined for four different values of the beam diameters of the two beams. Also we demonstrate volumetric FD-OCT images with mirror term attenuation and sensitivity profile shifted towards higher OPD values by applying a Talbot bands configuration.

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Adrian Bradu, Manuel J. Marques, Petr Bouchal, and Adrian Gh. Podoleanu "Combining Gabor and Talbot bands techniques to enhance the sensitivity with depth in Fourier domain optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 8571, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVII, 857136 (20 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2003983

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Optical coherence tomography

Mirrors

Spectroscopy

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