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  • Vol. 5, Iss. 9 — Jul. 6, 2010

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Experimental validation of an optimized signal processing method to handle non-linearity in swept-source optical coherence tomography

Sébastien Vergnole, Daniel Lévesque, and Guy Lamouche  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 10, pp. 10446-10461 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.010446


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Abstract

We evaluate various signal processing methods to handle the non-linearity in wavenumber space exhibited by most laser sources for swept-source optical coherence tomography. The following methods are compared for the same set of experimental data: non-uniform discrete Fourier transforms with Vandermonde matrix or with Lomb periodogram, resampling with linear interpolation or spline interpolation prior to fast-Fourier transform (FFT), and resampling with convolution prior to FFT. By selecting an optimized Kaiser-Bessel window to perform the convolution, we show that convolution followed by FFT is the most efficient method. It allows small fractional oversampling factor between 1 and 2, thus a minimal computational time, while retaining an excellent image quality.

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OCIS Codes
(070.4340) Fourier optics and signal processing : Nonlinear optical signal processing
(170.4500) Medical optics and biotechnology : Optical coherence tomography

ToC Category:
Fourier Optics and Signal Processing

History
Original Manuscript: February 1, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: April 18, 2010
Published: May 5, 2010

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Vol. 5, Iss. 9 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

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Sébastien Vergnole, Daniel Lévesque, and Guy Lamouche, "Experimental validation of an optimized signal processing method to handle non-linearity in swept-source optical coherence tomography," Opt. Express 18, 10446-10461 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/vjbo/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-10-10446


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