Simultaneous 4-phase-shifted full-field optical coherence microscopy

Abstract

A new method is presented for full-field optical coherence tomography imaging, which permits capturing single shot phase sensitive imaging through simultaneous acquisition of four phase-shifted images with a single camera using unpolarized light for object illumination. Our method retains the full dynamic range of the camera by using different areas of a single camera sensor to capture each image. We demonstrate the performance of our method by imaging phantoms and live cultures of fibroblast, cancer, and macrophage cells to achieve 59 dB sensitivity with isotropic resolution down to 1 μm, and displacement sensitivity down to 0.1 nm. Our method can serve as a platform for developing high resolution imaging systems because when used in conjunction with broadband spatially incoherent light sources, the resolution is not affected by optical aberrations or speckle noise.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 22, 2021
Source ID
10.1364/boe.417183

Entities

People

  • Mantas Zurauskas
  • Rishyashring R Iyer
  • Stephen A. Boppart

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • National Institutes of Health
  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Medical Imaging.
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