We present a new computational algorithm for complex frequency domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) that can effectively suppress artifacts, which are caused by uncertainty in phase shift due to errors in reference phases. The algorithm treats the phase shifting values as additional unknowns and we can determine their exact values by analyzing interference fringes using numerical least square technique. A series of simulation and experiments prove that this algorithm can effectively remove strong mirror image artifacts because it is unaffected by random phase fluctuation.

Date Published: 13 April 2005
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 5690, Coherence Domain Optical Methods and Optical Coherence Tomography in Biomedicine IX, (13 April 2005); doi: 10.1117/12.592506

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 5690:
Coherence Domain Optical Methods and Optical Coherence Tomography in Biomedicine IX
Valery V. Tuchin; Joseph A. Izatt; James G. Fujimoto, Editor(s)