Techniques of noninvasive optical tomographic imaging

Joseph Rosen; David Abookasis; Mark Gokhler

doi:10.1117/12.667705

20 January 2006 Techniques of noninvasive optical tomographic imaging

Joseph Rosen, David Abookasis, Mark Gokhler

Proceedings Volume 6027, ICO20: Optical Information Processing; 602708 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.667705
Event: ICO20:Optical Devices and Instruments, 2005, Changchun, China

Abstract

Recently invented methods of optical tomographic imaging through scattering and absorbing media are presented. In one method, the three-dimensional structure of an object hidden between two biological tissues is recovered from many noisy speckle pictures obtained on the output of a multi-channeled optical imaging system. Objects are recovered from many speckled images observed by a digital camera through two stereoscopic microlens arrays. Each microlens in each array generates a speckle image of the object buried between the layers. In the computer each image is Fourier transformed jointly with an image of the speckled point-like source captured under the same conditions. A set of the squared magnitudes of the Fourier-transformed pictures is accumulated to form a single average picture. This final picture is again Fourier transformed, resulting in the three-dimensional reconstruction of the hidden object. In the other method, the effect of spatial longitudinal coherence is used for imaging through an absorbing layer with different thickness, or different index of refraction, along the layer. The technique is based on synthesis of multiple peak spatial degree of coherence. This degree of coherence enables us to scan simultaneously different sample points on different altitudes, and thus decreases the acquisition time. The same multi peak degree of coherence is also used for imaging through the absorbing layer. Our entire experiments are performed with a quasi-monochromatic light source. Therefore problems of dispersion and inhomogeneous absorption are avoided.

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Joseph Rosen, David Abookasis, and Mark Gokhler "Techniques of noninvasive optical tomographic imaging", Proc. SPIE 6027, ICO20: Optical Information Processing, 602708 (20 January 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.667705

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