Theoretical analysis of performance limitation of computational refocusing in optical coherence tomography
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| author | Zhu, Yue Makita, Shuichi Fukutake, Naoki Yasuno, Yoshiaki |
| author_facet | Zhu, Yue Makita, Shuichi Fukutake, Naoki Yasuno, Yoshiaki |
| contents | High-numerical-aperture optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables sub-cellular imaging but faces a trade-off between lateral resolution and depth of focus. Computational refocusing can correct defocus in Fourier-domain OCT, yet its limitations remain unaddressed theoretically. We formulate the lateral imaging process of OCT by using pupil-based imaging theory and the constraints of the computational refocusing in point-scanning OCT and spatially-coherent full-field OCT (FFOCT) are analyzed. The constrains in lateral sampling density and the confocality are considered, and it is shown that the maximum correctable defocus (MCD) is primarily limited by confocality in point-scanning OCT, while spatially-coherent FFOCT has no such constraint and can achieve virtually infinite MCD with a proper and reasonable sampling density. This makes spatially-coherent FFOCT particularly suitable for optical coherence microscopy. |
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| spellingShingle | Theoretical analysis of performance limitation of computational refocusing in optical coherence tomography Zhu, Yue Makita, Shuichi Fukutake, Naoki Yasuno, Yoshiaki Optics High-numerical-aperture optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables sub-cellular imaging but faces a trade-off between lateral resolution and depth of focus. Computational refocusing can correct defocus in Fourier-domain OCT, yet its limitations remain unaddressed theoretically. We formulate the lateral imaging process of OCT by using pupil-based imaging theory and the constraints of the computational refocusing in point-scanning OCT and spatially-coherent full-field OCT (FFOCT) are analyzed. The constrains in lateral sampling density and the confocality are considered, and it is shown that the maximum correctable defocus (MCD) is primarily limited by confocality in point-scanning OCT, while spatially-coherent FFOCT has no such constraint and can achieve virtually infinite MCD with a proper and reasonable sampling density. This makes spatially-coherent FFOCT particularly suitable for optical coherence microscopy. |
| title | Theoretical analysis of performance limitation of computational refocusing in optical coherence tomography |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13874 |