Bulk phase error correction for holographic signal processing of optical coherence tomography

A numerical method to cancel the phase error caused by sample bulk motion from SD-OCT volume data is presented. This method first measures the vectorial gradient field of the phase error. The phase error is then estimated by path integration operation with non-standard integration paths. The performance of this method is validated by assessing the image quality of numerically refocused OCT images which is generated by complex holographic signal processing.