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¹Department of Medical Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.

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Area of Science:

Optical physics
Biomedical optics
Materials science

Background:

Characterizing microstructural features in turbid media is challenging.
Light-scattering spectroscopy (LSS) and Fourier-domain low-coherence interferometry (fLCI) offer potential for subsurface analysis.
Advanced processing methods are needed to improve resolution and accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

To measure morphological features in a thick turbid sample.
To demonstrate the capability of the dual-window (DW) method for processing LSS and fLCI data.
To differentiate between distinct scatterer populations within a complex sample.

Main Methods:

Utilized a parallel frequency domain optical coherence tomography (fOCT) system with a white-light source.
Employed the dual-window (DW) method to process OCT A-scans, creating time-frequency distributions.
Combined LSS and fLCI techniques for scatterer characterization.

Main Results:

The DW method achieved high spectral and spatial resolution in OCT A-scans.
Spectral information from localized regions allowed for scatterer structure determination.
Successfully differentiated between two populations of polystyrene beads (4.00 and 6.98 µm) in a two-layer phantom.

Conclusions:

The combined LSS and fLCI approach, processed with the DW method, is effective for analyzing morphological features in turbid samples.
This technique enables the differentiation of distinct scatterer populations based on their spectral properties.
The findings support the application of LSS and fLCI for microstructural analysis in complex optical media.