Beyond Fourier transform: super-resolving optical coherence tomography
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a volumetric imaging modality that empowers clinicians and scientists to noninvasively visualize the cross-sections of biological samples. As the latest generation of its kind, Fourier-domain OCT (FD-OCT) offers a micrometer-scale axial resolution by taking advantage of coherence gating. Based on the current theory, it is believed the only way to obtain a higher-axial-resolution OCT image is to physically extend the system's spectral bandwidth given a certain central wavelength. Here, we showed the belief is wrong. We proposed a novel reconstruction framework, which integrates prior knowledge and exploits the \emph{shift-variance}, to retrospectively super-resolve OCT images without altering the system configurations. Both numerical and experimental results confirmed the processed image manifested an axial resolution beyond the previous theoretical prediction. We believe this result not only opens new horizons for future research directions in OCT reconstruction but also promises an immediate upgrade to tens of thousands of legacy OCT units currently deployed.
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