Rigorous simulation of OCT image formation using Maxwell's equations in three dimensions
(Conference Presentation)

Peter R. T. Munro; Andrea Curatolo; David D. Sampson

doi:10.1117/12.2214717

26 April 2016 Rigorous simulation of OCT image formation using Maxwell's equations in three dimensions (Conference Presentation)

Peter R. T. Munro, Andrea Curatolo, David D. Sampson

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Proceedings Volume 9697, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX; 96971X (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214717
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Existing models of image formation in optical coherence tomography are based upon the extended Huygens-Fresnel formalism. These models all, to varying degrees, rely on scatterer ensemble averages, rather than deterministic scattering distributions. Whilst the former is sometimes preferable, there are a growing number of applications where the ability to predict image formation based upon deterministic refractive index distributions is of great interest, including, for example, image formation in turbid tissue. A rigorous model based upon three-dimensional solutions of Maxwell's equations offers a number of tantalising opportunities. For example, shedding light on features near or below the resolution of an OCT system and on the impact of phenomena usually described as diffraction, interference and scattering, but which more generally result from light scattering satisfying Maxwell's equations. A rigorous model allows inverse scattering methods to be developed not requiring the first-order Born approximation. Finally, a rigorous model can provide gold standard verification of myriad quantitative techniques currently being developed throughout the field. We have developed the first such model of image formation based upon three-dimensional solutions of Maxwell's equations, which has vastly different properties to models based on two-dimensional solutions. Although we present simulated B-scans, this model is equally applicable to C-scans. This has been made possible by advances in computational techniques and in computational resources routinely available. We will present the main features of our model, comparisons of measured and simulated image formation for phantoms and discuss the future of rigorous modelling in optical coherence tomography research and application.

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Peter R. T. Munro, Andrea Curatolo, and David D. Sampson "Rigorous simulation of OCT image formation using Maxwell's equations in three dimensions (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9697, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX, 96971X (26 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214717

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3D modeling

Image acquisition

Optical coherence tomography

Maxwell's equations

3D image processing

Light scattering

Scattering

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