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

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 artif...

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Published in:Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology 2017, Vol.2017 (8), p.1179597217713475-1179597217713475
Main Authors: Adabi, Saba, Turani, Zahra, Fatemizadeh, Emad, Clayton, Anne, Nasiriavanaki, Mohammadreza
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Authorship
Blurring
Coherent light
Decay
Fourier transforms
Image enhancement
Image resolution
Light
Light sources
Luminous intensity
Medical imaging
Methods
Neural networks
Noise
Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical components
Optical properties
Peer review
Quality
Quality control
Short Review
Signal processing
Skin
Software
Tomography
Ultrasonic imaging
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1179-5972
1179-5972
DOI:10.1177/1179597217713475