Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2019, 12 (2): 1950009, Published Online: Apr. 16, 2019  

Multi-frame speckle reduction in OCT using supercontinuum pumped by noise-like pulses

Author Affiliations
1 State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, P. R. China
2 Nuctech Company Limited, Beijing, P. R. China
3 Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd, Hsinchu, Taiwan
4 School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China
5 Institute of Forensic Science Ministry of Public Security, Beijing, P. R. China
6 Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan Province, P. R. China
7 Department of Physics and Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Abstract
In most coherent imaging modality, speckle noise is a major cause that blurs the boundary of tissues and degrades the image contrast. By utilizing the unique properties of supercontinuum (SC) generated by noise-like pulses (NLPs) and a simple multi-frame averaging technique, we achieved significant speckle reduction in spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). We quantitatively compared the speckle of our proposed method with those of conventional swept source OCT (SS-OCT) and SD-OCT based on commercial light sources. The experimental results show that SC pumped by NLPs combined with noncoherent averaging method achieves better denoising performance in terms of contrast to noise ratio (CNR).

Chengming Wang, Yi-Jing You, Shengnan Ai, Wenxin Zhang, Wenchao Liao, Xiao Zhang, Juicheng Hsieh, Ning Zhang, Bihua Tang, Ci-Ling Pan, Ping Xue. Multi-frame speckle reduction in OCT using supercontinuum pumped by noise-like pulses[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2019, 12(2): 1950009.

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