Optical Coherence Tomography Technology and Quality Improvement Methods for Optical Coherence Tomography Images of Skin: A Short Review:

Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology

SabaAdabi¹ 

关键词: Optical coherence tomography (OCT);    Image enhancement;    Speckle reduction;    attenuation compensation;    Deblurring;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1179597217713475

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) delivers 3-dimensional images of tissue microstructures. Although OCT imaging offers a promising high-resolution method, OCT images experience some artifacts that lead to misapprehension of tissue structures. Speckle, intensity decay, and blurring are 3 major artifacts in OCT images. Speckle is due to the low coherent light source used in the configuration of OCT. Intensity decay is a deterioration of light with respect to depth, and blurring is the consequence of deficiencies of optical components. In this short review, we summarize some of the image enhancement algorithms for OCT images which address the abovementioned artifacts.

【 授权许可】

CC BY