Patent ID: 8874403

Claim:
A method for processing imaging data from frequency-domain optical coherence tomography of a portion of a sample, the method comprising: (a) receiving, using a computing device, a magnitude spectrum of a complex spatial Fourier transform of a complex intermediate function, the complex intermediate function dependent on a complex scattering function from the frequency-domain optical coherence tomography of the portion of the sample; (b) receiving, using the computing device, an estimated phase term of the complex spatial Fourier transform; (c) multiplying, using the computing device, the magnitude spectrum and the estimated phase term together to generate an estimated complex spatial Fourier transform; (d) calculating, using the computing device, an inverse Fourier transform of the estimated complex spatial Fourier transform, wherein the inverse Fourier transform of the estimated complex spatial Fourier transform is a spatial function; and (e) calculating, using the computing device, an estimated intermediate function by applying at least one constraint to the inverse Fourier transform of the estimated complex spatial Fourier transform.