Speckle reduction in OCT using massively-parallel detection and frequency-domain ranging

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4736-4745

  Desjardins, A E ^a   Vakoc, B J ^a   Tearney, G J ^a   Bouma, B E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHT SPANNING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY-DOMAIN IMAGING (OFDI); SPECKLE REDUCTION;

SPECKLE;

EID: 33744516682     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004736     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. S. H. Yun, G. J. Tearney, J. F. de Boer, N. Iftimia, and B. E. Bouma, "High-speed optical frequency-domain imaging," Opt. Express 11, 2953-2963 (2003).
2. R. Huber, M. Wojtkowski, J. G. Fujimoto, J. Y. Jiang, and A. E. Cable, "Three-dimensional and C-mode OCT imaging with a compact, frequency swept laser source at 1300 nm," Opt. Express 13, 10523-10538 (2005).
3. M. A. Choma, K. Hsu, and J. A. Izatt, "Swept source optical coherence tomography using an all-fiber 1300-nm ring laser source," J. Biomed. Opt. 10, 044009 (2005).
4. K. M. Yung, S. L. Lee, and J. M. Schmitt, "Phase-domain processing of optical coherence tomography images," J. Biomed. Opt. 4, 125-136 (1999).
5. M. Pircher, E. Gotzinger, R. Leitgeb, A. F. Fercher, and C. K. Hitzenberger, "Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography by frequency compounding," J. Biomed. Opt. 8, 565-569 (2003).
6. D. C. Adler, T. H. Ko, and J. G. Fujimoto, "Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images by use of a spatially adaptive wavelet filter," Opt. Lett. 29, 2878-2880 (2004).
7. D. L. Marks, T. S. Ralston, and S. A. Boppart, "Speckle reduction by I-divergence regularization in optical coherence tomography," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22, 2366-2371 (2005).
8. J. M. Schmitt, "Array detection for speckle reduction in optical coherence microscopy," Phys. Med. Biol. 42, 1427-1439 (1997).
9. M. Bashkansky and J. Reintjes, "Statistics and reduction of speckle in optical coherence tomography," Opt. Lett. 25, 545-547 (2000).
10. N. Iftimia, B. E. Bouma, and G. J. Tearney, "Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography by "path length encoded" angular compounding," J. Biomed. Opt. 8, 260-263 (2003).
11. J. M. Schmitt, S. H. Xiang, and K. M. Yung, "Speckle in optical coherence tomography," J. Biomed. Opt. 4, 95-105 (1999).
12. S. H. Yun, C. Boudoux, G. J. Tearney, and B. E. Bouma, "High-speed wavelength-swept semiconductor laser with a polygon-scanner-based wavelength filter," Opt. Lett. 28, 1981-1983 (2003).
13. R. A. Leitgeb, C. K. Hitzenberger, and A. F. Fercher, "Performance of fourier domain vs. time domain optical coherence tomography," Opt. Express 11, 889-894 (2003).
14. B. Vakoc, S. Yun, J. de Boer, G. Tearney, and B. Bouma, "Phase-resolved optical frequency domain imaging," Opt. Express 13, 5483-5493 (2005).