View full-text article in PMC J Biomed Opt. 2024 Sep 2;29(9):097001. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.29.9.097001 Search in PMC Search in PubMed View in NLM Catalog Add to search Copyright and License information © 2024 The Authors Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. PMC Copyright notice Fig. 7. (a) Depth detection limit, zTlim. (b) Optimum SD distance, ρopt, as a function of E(Bamb)+E(Bdet) with varying ξα for case 1. Red, green, and blue colors indicate ξα=1, 2, and 3, respectively. Because E(Bdet) was estimated at ˜1.25kcpb, the abscissa is almost equal to E(Bamb).