Statistics and reduction of speckle in optical coherence tomography

被引:206
作者
Bashkansky, M [1 ]
Reintjes, J [1 ]
机构
[1] USN, Res Lab, Washington, DC 20375 USA
关键词
Optical coherence tomography (OCT);
D O I
10.1364/OL.25.000545
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 [光学]; 0803 [光学工程];
摘要
Studies have shown that optical coherence tomography (OCT) is useful in imaging microscopic structures through highly scattering media. Because spatially coherent light is used in OCT, speckle in the reconstructed image is unavoidable, resulting in degradation of the quality of the OCT images and impaired ability to differentiate subsurface structures. Therefore speckle reduction is an important issue in OCT imaging. We develop speckle statistics that are appropriate to the OCT measurements and demonstrate a simple and practical speckle-reduction technique. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America. OCIS codes: 170.4500, 110.4500, 030.6140, 120.6150.
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