Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images using tissue viscoelasticity.
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We present a technique to reduce speckle in optical coherence tomography images of soft tissues. An average is formed over a set of B-scans that have been decorrelated by viscoelastic creep strain. The necessary correction for the deformation-induced spatial distortions between B-scans is achieved through geometrical co-registration using an affine transformation. Speckle reduction by up to a factor of 1.65 is shown in images of tissue-mimicking soft fibrin phantoms and excised human lymph node tissue with no observable loss of spatial resolution.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of biomedical optics
دوره 16 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011