Abstract
In optical coherence tomography (OCT), spatial resolution and signal strength often suffer due to aberrations from both the imaging system and the sample. In this work, we introduce a novel method, FMMAS (Forward-Model Multiple Aperture Synthesis), which effectively compensates for these aberrations. It combines forward-model (FM) based method for transverse resolution restoration and multiple aperture synthesis (MAS) to mitigate depth domain aberrations. Our proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates a significant improvement in the mean transverse full width at half maximum (FWHM) of microparticles by 46.1 %. Compared to original OCT and FM method, FMMAS produces sharper, 'pencil beam'-like imaging, resolving cell nuclei in swine esophagus ex vivo and human blood cells in vivo, suggesting a potential for significant enhancements in OCT image quality.
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