Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 12, Issue 2, 1950009(2019)

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

Chengming Wang1,2, Yi-Jing You3, Shengnan Ai1, Wenxin Zhang1, Wenchao Liao1, Xiao Zhang4, Juicheng Hsieh1, Ning Zhang5, Bihua Tang6, Ci-Ling Pan3,7, and Ping Xue1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, P. R. China
  • 2Nuctech Company Limited, Beijing, P. R. China
  • 3Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • 4School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China
  • 5Institute of Forensic Science Ministry of Public Security, Beijing, P. R. China
  • 6Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan Province, P. R. China
  • 7Department of Physics and Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
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    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).

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    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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    Paper Information

    Received: Nov. 26, 2018

    Accepted: Feb. 17, 2019

    Published Online: Apr. 16, 2019

    The Author Email: Xue Ping (xuep@tsinghua.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545819500093

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