Assessment and removal of additive noise in a complex optical coherence tomography signal based on Doppler variation analysis

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-10-2018

Abstract

In this study, we investigate and validate a novel approach to assess and remove additive noise for optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. Our method first generates a map of additive noise for the OCT image through Doppler variation analysis. We then remove the additive noise from the real and imaginary parts of the complex OCT signal through pixelwise Wiener filtering. Our results show that the method described in this manuscript improves the sensitivity of OCT imaging and preserves the spatial resolution without the need to modify the imaging apparatus and data acquisition protocol.

Identifier

85045152740 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Applied Optics

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.57.002873

e-ISSN

21553165

ISSN

1559128X

PubMed ID

29714288

First Page

2873

Last Page

2880

Issue

11

Volume

57

Grant

EEC-1560131

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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