New formulation of OCT for analytical signal-to-speckle separation and volumetric differential contrast imaging

Abstract

A new formulation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is presented. This formulation can represent a meaningful OCT image and speckles as two independent mathematical entities. In addition, by using the same formulation strategy, a new imaging modality to generate a spatially differential image, similar to differential interferometric contrast microscopy is demonstrated.