Learning Tomography Assessed Using Mie Theory

In Optical diffraction tomography, the multiply scattered field is a nonlinear function of the refractive index of the object. The Rytov method is a linear approximation of the forward model, and is commonly used to reconstruct images. Recently, we introduced a reconstruction method based on the Beam Propagation Method (BPM) that takes the nonlinearity into account. We refer to this method as Learning Tomography (LT). In this paper, we carry out simulations in order to assess the performance of LT over the linear iterative method. Each algorithm has been rigorously assessed for spherical objects, with synthetic data generated using the Mie theory. By varying the RI contrast and the size of the objects, we show that the LT reconstruction is more accurate and robust than the reconstruction based on the linear model. In addition, we show that LT is able to correct distortion that is evident in Rytov approximation due to limitations in phase unwrapping. More importantly, the capacity of LT in handling multiple scattering problem are demonstrated by simulations of multiple cylinders using the Mie theory and confirmed by experimental results of two spheres.

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