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LASER PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1612-202X/aab5e9
Keywords
optical coherence elastography; phase-sensitive OCT; strain mapping
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- Russian Science Foundation [17-72-20249, 16-15-10274]
- Russian Science Foundation [16-15-10274] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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A noise-tolerant approach to strain estimation in phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography, robust to decorrelation distortions, is discussed. The method is based on evaluation of interframe phase-variation gradient, but its main feature is that the phase is singled out at the very last step of the gradient estimation. All intermediate steps operate with complex-valued optical coherence tomography (OCT) signals represented as vectors in the complex plane (hence, we call this approach the 'vector' method). In comparison with such a popular method as least-square fitting of the phase-difference slope over a selected region (even in the improved variant with amplitude weighting for suppressing small-amplitude noisy pixels), the vector approach demonstrates superior tolerance to both additive noise in the receiving system and speckle-decorrelation caused by tissue straining. Another advantage of the vector approach is that it obviates the usual necessity of error-prone phase unwrapping. Here, special attention is paid to modifications of the vector method that make it especially suitable for processing defonnalions with significant lateral inhomogeneity, which often occur in real situations. The method's advantages are demonstrated using both simulated and real OCT scans obtained during reshaping of a collagenous tissue sample irradiated by an IR laser beam producing complex spatially inhomogeneous deformations.
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