Multifocal interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy

Opt Express. 2014 Jun 30;22(13):16606-18. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.016606.

Abstract

There is an inherent trade-off between transverse resolution and depth of field (DOF) in optical coherence tomography (OCT) which becomes a limiting factor for certain applications. Multifocal OCT and interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) each provide a distinct solution to the trade-off through modification to the experiment or via post-processing, respectively. In this paper, we have solved the inverse problem of multifocal OCT and present a general algorithm for combining multiple ISAM datasets. Multifocal ISAM (MISAM) uses a regularized combination of the resampled datasets to bring advantages of both multifocal OCT and ISAM to achieve optimal transverse resolution, extended effective DOF and improved signal-to-noise ratio. We present theory, simulation and experimental results.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Interferometry / instrumentation*
  • Microscopy, Interference / instrumentation*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation*