Spectral fusing Gabor domain optical coherence microscopy based on FPGA processing.

High-resolution imaging using high numerical aperture imaging optics is commonly known to cause a narrow depth of focus, which limits the depth of field in optical coherence tomography (OCT). To achieve semi-invariant high resolution in all directions, Gabor domain optical coherence microscopy (GD-OCM) combines the in-focus regions of multiple cross-sectional images that are acquired while shifting the focal plane of the objective lens. As a result, GD-OCM requires additional processes for in-focus extraction and fusion, leading to longer processing times, as compared with conventional frequency domain OCT (FD-OCT).