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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Caractérisation et modélisation de la turbulence optique en espace confiné / Characterization and modelling of optical turbulence in a confined space.

Blary, Flavien 17 December 2015 (has links)
La turbulence optique et son impact sur les images obtenues à partir d'instruments de mesure est un phénomène connu dans le domaine de l'astronomie. Des modèles issus de la théorie de Kolmogorov, développée pour une turbulence dynamique, ainsi que des méthodes de correction, telles que l'optique adaptative, existent pour l'analyse et la compensation des effets de cette turbulence optique. L'analyse de cette dernière dans les milieux confinés est cependant plus limitée. Les sources susceptibles de générer une turbulence optique dans ces espaces sont pourtant multiples et peuvent avoir un impact non négligeable sur les mesures des instruments installés à proximité. Ce mémoire constitue une première approche de la caractérisation de la turbulence optique dans un espace confiné. Après l'introduction des phénomènes étudiés et des outils mathématiques employés, ce mémoire présente les résultats issus d'analyses de coupoles de télescopes et de caractérisations de salles blanches employées par l'entreprise Thales Alenia Space pour l'intégration et le test d'instruments optiques. Ces résultats sont obtenus avec l'instrument INTENSE, développé durant la thèse pour la caractérisation de la turbulence optique locale via la mesure des fluctuations des angles d'arrivée de multiples faisceaux lasers. En prévision de futurs améliorations de l'analyse de la turbulence en espace confiné, un chapitre du mémoire est dédié aux travaux réalisés sur une méthode d'extraction du profil de l'énergie de la turbulence et à son application sur l'instrument INTENSE. Les conclusions et les perspectives des travaux réalisés pendant la thèse sont présentées à la fin du mémoire. / Optical turbulence and its impact on measured images is a well-known phenomenon in astronomy. Models based on the Kolmogorov theory, elaborated for a dynamical turbulence description, and methods, such as Adaptive Optics, were both developed so as to understand and correct the degradations caused by this turbulence. Analysis of the same phenomenon in indoor situation was however less investigated. The local air volume is nonetheless prone to optical perturbations sources which could have non negligible impacts on the measurements of instruments installed at proximity. This document introduces a first approach of indoor optical turbulence characterization. After the introduction of the studied phenomenon and the mathematical tools employed, this thesis present optical turbulence characterizations inside Thales Alenia Space clean rooms used for optical instrument integration and testing. Analyses inside telescope domes are also shown in this document. All the results were obtained using the INTENSE instrument which was developed during the thesis for optical turbulence characterizations using angle of arrival fluctuations of laser beams. In anticipation for future ameliorations of optical turbulence analysis methods, a chapter of this thesis is dedicated to the work made on a turbulence energy profile extraction and its application on the INTENSE instrument. Conclusions and perspectives of the work made during this thesis are presented at the end of the document.
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System Design And Optimization Of Optical Coherence Tomography

Akcay, Avni Ceyhun 01 January 2005 (has links)
Optical coherence imaging, including tomography (OCT) and microscopy (OCM), has been a growing research field in biomedical optical imaging in the last decade. In this imaging modality, a broadband light source, thus of short temporal coherence length, is used to perform imaging via interferometry. A challenge in optical coherence imaging, as in any imaging system towards biomedical diagnosis, is the quantification of image quality and optimization of the system components, both a primary focus of this research. We concentrated our efforts on the optimization of the imaging system from two main standpoints: axial point spread function (PSF) and practical steps towards compact low-cost solutions. Up to recently, the criteria for the quality of a system was based on speed of imaging, sensitivity, and particularly axial resolution estimated solely from the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the axial PSF with the common practice of assuming a Gaussian source power spectrum. As part of our work to quantify axial resolution we first brought forth two more metrics unlike FWHM, which accounted for side lobes in the axial PSF caused by irregularities in the shape of the source power spectrum, such as spectral dips. Subsequently, we presented a method where the axial PSF was significantly optimized by suppressing the side lobes occurring because of the irregular shape of the source power spectrum. The optimization was performed through optically shaping the source power spectrum via a programmable spectral shaper, which consequentially led to suppression of spurious structures in the images of a layered specimen. The superiority of the demonstrated approach was in performing reshaping before imaging, thus eliminating the need for post-data acquisition digital signal processing. Importantly, towards the optimization and objective image quality assessment in optical coherence imaging, the impact of source spectral shaping was further analyzed in a task-based assessment method based on statistical decision theory. Two classification tasks, a signal-detection task and a resolution task, were investigated. Results showed that reshaping the source power spectrum was a benefit essentially to the resolution task, as opposed to both the detection and resolution tasks, and the importance of the specimen local variations in index of refraction on the resolution task was demonstrated. Finally, towards the optimization of OCT and OCM for use in clinical settings, we analyzed the detection electronics stage, which is a crucial component of the system that is designed to capture extremely weak interferometric signals in biomedical and biological imaging applications. We designed and tested detection electronics to achieve a compact and low-cost solution for portable imaging units and demonstrated that the design provided an equivalent performance to the commercial lock-in amplifier considering the system sensitivity obtained with both detection schemes.
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Biomedical applications of polarimetric imaging contrast. Initial studies for scattering media and human tissues

Antonelli, Maria Rosaria 21 September 2011 (has links) (PDF)
L'amélioration de la visualisation in vivo des lésions précancéreuse (dysplasies) du col utérin est essentielle pour mieux identifier les zones à biopsier et pour optimiser la définition des limites d'exérèse chirurgicale. Dans ce but nous étudions une nouvelle technique d'imagerie polarimétrique en rétrodiffusion, que nous avons mise en oeuvre sur des échantillons ex vivo dans des configurations expérimentales variées afin d'optimiser le diagnostic in vivo. Comme cette optimisation passe par la compréhension des contrastes polarimétriques observés, nous avons réalisé de nombreuses simulations de la propagation de lumière polarisée dans des structures multicouche représentatives des tissus. Ces structures comprennent typiquement une couche comportant des diffuseurs dans une matrice homogène et représentant l'épithélium ou le tissu conjonctif superficiel, et un substrat lambertien totalement dépolarisant pour les couches plus profondes. Ces simulations ont été effectuées au moyen d'un code Monte Carlo que nous avons adapté à notre problématique. Nous avons ainsi montré que la contribution des noyaux cellulaires est très faible en rétrodiffusion. Pour le tissu conjonctif, les fibres de collagène, modélisées par des diffuseurs sphériques de 200 nm de rayon, donnent une contribution plus importante que les noyaux, mais ne reproduisent pas la réponse polarimétrique de type Rayleigh observée dans tous les tissus étudiés, qu'ils soient sains ou pathologiques. En revanche, l'inclusion de diffuseurs de taille nettement inférieure à la longueur d'onde, modélisés par des sphères de 50 nm, permet de reproduire cette réponse de manière très stable. Ces diffuseurs correspondent a priori aux protéines intracellulaires. Dans le cadre de ce modèle, les contrastes observés entre tissus sains et cancéreux s'expliquent essentiellement par une variation de la concentration de ces petits diffuseurs. Ce résultat, encore préliminaire, suggère que l'imagerie polarimétrique en rétrodiffusion peut être sensible non seulement à la morphologie, mais également à l'état physiologique du tissu, ce qui peut s'avérer important pour la détection sélective des dysplasies.
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In vivo imaging in the oral cavity by endoscopic optical coherence tomography

Walther, Julia, Schnabel, Christian, Tetschke, Florian, Rosenauer, Tobias, Golde, Jonas, Ebert, Nadja, Baumann, Michael, Hannig, Christian, Koch, Edmund 01 September 2020 (has links)
The common way to diagnose hard and soft tissue irregularities in the oral cavity is initially the visual inspection by an experienced dentist followed by further medical examinations, such as radiological imaging and/or histopathological investigation. For the diagnosis of oral hard and soft tissues, the detection of early transformations is mostly hampered by poor visual access, low specificity of the diagnosis techniques, and/or limited feasibility of frequent screenings. Therefore, optical noninvasive diagnosis of oral tissue is promising to improve the accuracy of oral screening. Considering this demand, a rigid handheld endoscopic scanner was developed for optical coherence tomography (OCT). The novelty is the usage of a commercially near-infrared endoscope with fitting optics in combination with an established spectral-domain OCT system of our workgroup. By reaching a high spatial resolution, in vivo images of anterior and especially posterior dental and mucosal tissues were obtained from the oral cavity of two volunteers. The convincing image quality of the endoscopic OCT device is particularly obvious for the imaging of different regions of the human soft palate with highly scattering fibrous layer and capillary network within the lamina propria.

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