Replacing the Fourier transformation in optical coherence tomography with multiple comparison operations

Adrian Bradu; Sylvain Rivet; Adrian Podoleanu

doi:10.1117/12.2251900

22 February 2017 Replacing the Fourier transformation in optical coherence tomography with multiple comparison operations

Adrian Bradu, Sylvain Rivet, Adrian Podoleanu

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Proceedings Volume 10076, High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy: Toward Big Data Instrumentation and Management II; 100761B (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2251900
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The conventional spectral domain (SD) and Fourier domain (FD) OCT method deliver a 1D reflectivity profile in the sample investigated by applying a Fourier transform (FT) to the channeled spectrum, CS, at the interferometer output. We discuss here the advantages of a novel OCT technology, Master Slave (MS). The MS method radically changes the main building blocks of a SD (FD)-OCT set-up. The serially provided electrical signal in conventional technology is replaced by multiple signals, a signal for each OPD point along an electrical output for each depth in the object investigated. In this way, it is possible to: (1) direct access to information from selected depths; (ii) eliminate the process of resampling, required by the FT based conventional technology, with immediate consequences in improving the decay of sensitivity with depth, achieving the expected axial resolution limit, reduction in the time to display an image and lower cost OCT assembly; (iii) OCT interferometer tolerant to dispersion left unbalanced.

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Adrian Bradu, Sylvain Rivet, and Adrian Podoleanu "Replacing the Fourier transformation in optical coherence tomography with multiple comparison operations", Proc. SPIE 10076, High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy: Toward Big Data Instrumentation and Management II, 100761B (22 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2251900

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Optical coherence tomography

Curium

Fourier transforms

Reflectivity

Data acquisition

Interferometers

Image resolution

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