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Published in final edited form as: Opt Express. 2008 Feb 18;16(4):2555–2569. doi: 10.1364/oe.16.002555

Table 4.

Discrete signals

Discrete signal descriptions		Prototype Size	Real-time Size
S_{rt_ω}	Time domain OCT signal	----	----
S_rω	Frequency domain OCT signal	M,N	M,N
S_rω′	Interpolated frequency domain OCT signal	M,2N	----
S_rk	Dispersion-corrected frequency domain OCT signal	M,N	M,N
S_rk′	Interpolated, dispersion-corrected frequency domain OCT signal	M,2N	----
S_rt	Dispersion-corrected time domain OCT signal	M,N	M,N/2
Ŝ_rt	Phase-corrected, dispersion-corrected time domain OCT signal	M,N	----
S_rt′	Dispersion-corrected time domain OCT signal, where t′=0 at the focal plane	M,N+2\|t₀\|	M,N/2
S_qk	Transverse frequency domain OCT signal (3D Fourier transform of S_rt)	M,N+2\|t₀\|	M,N/2
η_qβ	Spatial frequency distribution of object’s susceptibility	M,N+2\|t₀\|	M,N/2
η_rz′	Object’s susceptibility, where z′=0 at the focal plane	M,N+2\|t₀\|	M,N/2
η_rz	Object’s susceptibility, where z=0 at the reference plane	M,N	M,N/2