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Optical Imaging
Computational Optics
Biomedical Optics

Background:

Hardware-based adaptive optics are complex and costly for aberration correction.
Optical aberrations degrade image quality in various imaging modalities.
Need for cost-effective and simpler aberration correction methods.

Purpose of the Study:

To present an automated computational method for correcting optical aberrations in broadband interferometric imaging.
To model aberration correction as a Fourier domain filtering operation.
To validate the method on simulated and experimental data.

Main Methods:

Aberration correction modeled as a Fourier domain filtering operation.
Phase filter expressed as a linear combination of Zernike polynomials.
Iterative optimization scheme maximizing image sharpness metric to estimate filter coefficients.

Main Results:

Successful aberration correction demonstrated on simulated data.
Method validated using experimental data from tissue phantoms and ex vivo tissue.
In vivo validation performed on the human retina's photoreceptor layer.

Conclusions:

Computational aberration correction is an effective and simpler alternative to hardware-based adaptive optics.
The proposed method offers a robust approach for enhancing image quality in interferometric imaging.
Validated applicability across diverse imaging scenarios, from phantoms to in vivo human tissue.