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Simulations of the optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems using the Monte Carlo method is a widely explored research area. However, there are several difficulties that need to be overcome in order to properly model the OCT imaging with the Monte Carlo algorithm. First of all, the temporal and the spatial coherence of the scattered light need to be considered, since OCT is based on the interference phenomenon. For the same reason, the polarization state of the scattered light need to be calculated. Moreover, the OCT systems use light beams that can be described by the Gaussian beam model. However, such beams cannot be directly simulated using the standard Monte Carlo algorithm. Different research groups have developed simulators dealing with some of these problems but the Monte Carlo simulator which considers all of them has not been published yet. Here we present the Monte Carlo program allowing to simulate OCT images of heterogeneous light scattering structures. The presented program considers all of the listed problems and allows to model complex sample geometries with layer boundaries described by a set of polygons. © (2015) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
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- Category:
- Conference activity
- Type:
- materiały konferencyjne indeksowane w Web of Science
- Title of issue:
- Conference on Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering IX strony 1 - 10
- ISSN:
- 0277-786X
- Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Bibliographic description:
- Kraszewski M., Trojanowski M., Pluciński J., Strąkowski M..: Advanced Monte Carlo simulator of the polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography systems, W: Conference on Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering IX, 2015, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING,.
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1117/12.2079739
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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