Open AccessVirtual-OCT: A simulated optical coherence tomography instrument
Author(s) -
Ning Liu,
Cuixia Dai,
Yuanhe Tang,
Peng Xi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of innovative optical health sciences/journal of innovation in optical health science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1793-5458
pISSN - 1793-7205
DOI - 10.1142/s1793545814500308
Subject(s) - optical coherence tomography , optics , instrumentation (computer programming) , detector , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , computer science , spectral resolution , physics , spectral line , quantum mechanics , operating system , astronomy
We report the virtual instrumentation of both time-domain (TD) and spectral-domain (SD) optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems. With a virtual partial coherence source from either a simulated or measured spectrum, the OCT signals of both A-scan and B-scan were demonstrated. The spectrometric detector's pixel number, dynamic range, noise, as well as spectral resolution can be simulated in the virtual spectral domain (SD-OCT). The virtual-OCT system provides an environment for parameter evaluation and algorithm optimization for experimental OCT instrumentation, and promotes the understanding of OCT imaging and signal post-processing processes