Author Affiliations
1 Laboratory of Information Optics and Opto-Electronic Technology, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Diagram of split-spectrum method for speckle noise reduction
Fig. 2. Power spectrum of light source
Fig. 3. Simulation results of intensity images. (a) Before split-spectrum; (b) method 1; (c) method 2
Fig. 4. Simulation results of the polarization images. Retardation images, (a) before split-spectrum, (c) method 1, (e) method 2; fast axis orientation images, (b) before split-spectrum, (d) method 1, (f) method 2
Fig. 5. Comparison of A-line signals before and after using the split-spectrum method. (a) Whole result; (b) enlarged view of dashed box in Fig.(a)
Fig. 6. Schematic of FD-PS-OCT system
Fig. 7. PS-OCT images of chicken breast muscle. (a)(b) Intensity images before and after using the split-spectrum method; (c)(d) retardation images before and after using the split-spectrum method; (e)(f) fast axis orientation images before and after using the split-spectrum method
Method | Region 1(mean±SD) | Region 2(mean±SD) |
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Beforesplit-spectrum | 0.9871±7.2263 | 1.0296±7.1374 | Method1 | 0.0569±1.1369 | 0.0333±0.7567 | Method2 | 0.0264±0.5202 | 0.0104±0.3480 |
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Table 1. Comparison of speckle reduction of 2 methods in intensity images
Method | Region 1 (mean±SD) /rad | Region 2 (mean±SD) /rad |
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Before split-spectrum | 0.0191±0.1287 | 0.0226±0.1457 | Method 1 | 0.0031±0.0535 | 0.0021±0.0466 | Method 2 | 0.0032±0.0525 | 0.0011±0.0305 |
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Table 2. Comparison of speckle reduction of two methods in retardation images
Method | Region 1 (mean±SD) /rad | Region 2 (mean±SD) /rad |
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Before split-spectrum | 0.0209±0.1518 | 0.0225±0.1486 | Method 1 | 0.0015±0.0320 | 0.0023±0.0453 | Method 2 | 0.0032±0.0535 | 0.0008±0.0222 |
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Table 3. Comparison of speckle reduction of two methods in fast axis orientation images
Method | Intensity (mean±SD) | Retardation(mean±SD) /rad | Fast axis orientation(mean±SD) /rad |
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Before split-spectrum | 129.5587±64.8879 | 0.4002±0.3156 | 0.6450±0.5139 | Method 2 | 148.4446±33.4884 | 0.6437±0.2045 | 0.7774±0.2732 |
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Table 4. Comparison of speckle reduction in PS-OCT images before and after split-spectrum method
Item | Method | SNR /dB | CNR | ENL |
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R | Before split-spectrum | 26.1651 | 1.0020 | 2.1539 | Method 2 | 27.6180 | 1.7557 | 7.5866 | Improvement | 1.4529 | 1.7522 | 3.5223 | δ | Before split-spectrum | 18.2318 | 0.7664 | 1.4162 | Method 2 | 20.8118 | 1.4651 | 5.5352 | Improvement | 2.5800 | 1.9117 | 3.9085 | θ | Before split-spectrum | 18.0250 | 0.7033 | 1.0144 | Method 2 | 20.8123 | 1.3065 | 3.9362 | Improvement | 2.7873 | 1.8577 | 3.8803 |
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Table 5. SNR, CNR and ENL for PS-OCT images before and after using split-spectrum method