Improved signal-to-noise ratio in spectral-domain compared with time-domain optical coherence tomography.
A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) analysis is presented for optical coherence tomography (OCT) signals in which time-domain performance is compared with that of the spectral domain. A significant SNR gain of several hundredfold is found for acquisition in the spectral domain. The SNR benefit is demonstrated experimentally in a hybrid time-domain-spectral-domain OCT system.
de Boer
Johannes F
JF
Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Blossom Street, BAR 724, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. deboer@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
Cense
Barry
B
Park
B Hyle
BH
Pierce
Mark C
MC
Tearney
Guillermo J
GJ
Bouma
Brett E
BE
D016477:Artifacts; D004867:Equipment Design; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013997:Time Factors; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation