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Optica, Optics Express, 20(19), p. 19480, 2011

DOI: 10.1364/oe.19.019480

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Structured three-dimensional optical phantom for optical coherence tomography

Journal article published in 2011 by Brendan F. Kennedy, Andrea Curatolo ORCID, David D. Sampson ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We present a three-dimensional structured tissue-mimicking phantom for use in optical coherence tomography (OCT). The phantom was fabricated from a silicone matrix and titanium dioxide additive using a lithographic casting method capable of producing a wide range of well-defined geometries with optical contrast and mesoscopic feature sizes relevant to OCT. We describe the fabrication, characterization and OCT imaging of two phantoms and demonstrate their utility in assessing the performance of a spatial-diversity speckle reduction technique. Such phantoms will be important in the development of standards in OCT, as well as in enabling quantitative performance assessment.