Reducing noise in polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography for high-quality local phase retardation imaging.

Local phase retardation (LPR) is increasingly recognized as a crucial biomarker for assessing disease progression. However, the presence of speckle noise significantly challenges its accuracy and polarization contrast. To address this challenge, we propose a signal-processing strategy aimed at reducing the impact of noise on LPR measurements.

Comparative study of OCTA algorithms with a high-sensitivity multi-contrast Jones matrix OCT system for human skin imaging.

The multi-contrast Jones matrix OCT (JMT) system can not only improve the tissue-specific contrast but also enhance the sensitivity of detecting flow, which is gaining increasing attention. However, for the JMT system, there is currently a lack of studies evaluating and guiding the selection of suitable angiography algorithms to map the most appealing quality of angiograms for clinical use. In this paper, by a homemade high-sensitivity multi-contrast JMT system based 200 kHz swept source, the performance of two complex-signal-based OCTA methods that are insensitive to phase instability and one amplitude-signal-based OCTA method are compared for in-vivo imaging of human skin qualitatively and quantitatively.

[Comparison and Analysis of Iterative and Genetic Algorithms Used to Extract the Optical Parameters of Glucose Polycrystalline].

Based on the terahertz time-domain reflection spectroscopy, the optical parameters of anhydrous D-glucose polycrystalline, i.e. the refractive index and the absorption coefficient were extracted by using iterative and genetic algorithm, respectively.