NIH R01 · 2025
Overcoming the Multiple Scattering Limit in Optical Coherence Tomography
Extending imaging depth is one of the grand challenges in optical microscopy, and many creative approaches are under development to mitigate the detrimental impact of the phenomenon of ‘optical scattering’ and enable deeper optical imaging in scattering media. Light propagating in dense tissue undergoes scattering events that scramble the phase of the propagating optical wavefront, and thus disrupts the constructive interference needed to focus/spatially localize the light to a diffraction-limited focal spot. Consequently, microscopic resolution is typically only available in the so-called ‘single-scattering’ (SS) or ‘ballistic’ light regime. OCT is one of the leading modalities in the…
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