| Title |
Realistic simulation and experiment reveals the importance of scatterer microstructure in optical coherence tomography image formation
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| Published in |
Biomedical Optics Express, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1364/boe.9.003122 |
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| Abstract |
Realistic simulation of image formation in optical coherence tomography, based on Maxwell's equations, has recently been demonstrated for sample volumes of practical significance. Yet, there remains a limitation whereby reducing the size of cells used to construct a computational grid, thus allowing for a more realistic representation of scatterer microstructure, necessarily reduces the overall sample size that can be modelled. This is a significant problem since, as is well known, the microstructure of a scatterer significantly influences its scattering properties. Here we demonstrate that an optimized scatterer design can overcome this problem resulting in good agreement between simulated and experimental images for a structured phantom. This approach to OCT image simulation allows for image formation for biological tissues to be simulated with unprecedented realism. |
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