title: Structured three-dimensional optical phantom for optical coherence tomography.
abstract: We present a three-dimensional structured tissue-mimicking phantom for use in optical coherence tomography (OCT). The phantom was fabricated from a silicone matrix and titanium dioxide additive using a lithographic casting method capable of producing a wide range of well-defined geometries with optical contrast and mesoscopic feature sizes relevant to OCT. We describe the fabrication, characterization and OCT imaging of two phantoms and demonstrate their utility in assessing the performance of a spatial-diversity speckle reduction technique. Such phantoms will be important in the development of standards in OCT, as well as in enabling quantitative performance assessment.
authors: Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia. andrea.curatolo@uwa.edu.au
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Curatolo
authors: Brendan F
authors: BF
authors: Kennedy
authors: David D
authors: DD
authors: Sampson
mesh_terms: D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*