Browsing by Author "Deng, Sophie"

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650 GHz imaging as alignment verification for millimeter wave corneal reflectometry
(2022-03-01) Hu, Yong; Baggio, Mariangela; Dabironezare, Shahab; Tamminen, Aleksi; Toy, Brandon; Ala-Laurinaho, Juha; Brown, Elliot; Llombart, Nuria; Deng, Sophie; Wallace, Vincent; Taylor, Zachary
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
A system concept for online alignment verification of millimeter-wave, corneal reflectometry is presented. The system utilizes beam scanning to generate magnitude-only reflectivity maps of the cornea at 650 GHz and compares these images to a precomputed/measured template map to confirm/reject sufficient alignment. A system utilizing five off-axis parabolic mirrors, a thin film beam splitter, and two-axis galvanometric mirror was designed, simulated, and evaluated with geometric and physical optics. Simulation results informed the construction of a demonstrator system which was tested with a reference reflector. Similarity metrics computed with the aligned template and 26 misaligned positions, distributed on a 0.5 mm x 0.5 mm x 0.5 mm mesh, demonstrated sufficient misalignment detection sensitivity in 23 out of 26 positions. The results show that positional accuracy on the order of 0.5 mm is possible using 0.462 mm wavelength radiation due to the perturbation of coupling efficiency via beam distortion and beam walk-off.
Extraction of thickness and water content gradients in hydrogel-based, water-backed corneal phantoms via submillimeter wave reflectometry
(2021-11-01) Tamminen, Aleksi; Baggio, Mariangela; Nefedova, Irina; Sun, Qiushuo; Presnyakov, Semyon; Ala-laurinaho, Juha; Brown, Elliot; Wallace, Vincent; Macpherson, Emma; Maloney, Thaddeus; Kravchenko, Natalia; Salkola, Mika; Deng, Sophie; Taylor, Zachary
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
Absolute thickness and free-water-content gradients in gelatin-based corneal phantoms with physiologically accurate radii of curvature and aqueous backing were extracted via coherent submillimeter-wave reflectometry at 220-330 GHz. Fourier-domain-based calibration methods, utilizing temporal and spatial gating, were developed and yielded peak-to-peak amplitude and phase clutter of 10-3 and 0.1°, respectively, for signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) between 40 and 50 dB. Total 12 phantoms were fabricated. Calibration methods enabled quantification of target sphericity that strongly correlated with optical-coherence tomography-based sphericity metrics via image segmentation. The extracted free-water volume fraction varied less than 5% in the five phantoms whose fabrication yielded the most spherical geometry. Submillimeter-wave-based thickness accuracy was better than 111 μm (∼λ/9) with an average of 65 μm (∼λ/17) and standard deviation of 44 μm (∼λ/25) for phantoms with physiologically relevant geometry. Monte-Carlo simulations of measurement noise and uncertainty limits agree with the experimental data analysis and indicate a lower thickness accuracy limit of 33 μm, and water-content sensitivities of 0.5% and 11.8% for the anterior and posterior segments, respectively. Numerical analysis suggests that the measurement fidelity was SNR limited and identified optical path length ambiguities within the cornea where a continuum of thickness/water gradient pairs produces statistically insignificant differences in complex reflection coefficient for finite SNR. This is the first known submillimeter-wave measurement technique, which is able to extract both the thickness and water-content gradients from a soft-tissue phantom, with a water backing, without the need for ancillary measurements.