Fig. 7.

Statistical analysis of the STOC-manipulated FF-SS-OCT intensities for the variable number of phase masks, $M$. (a) Images with red rectangle denoting the region used for statistical analysis. (b) Experimentally determined intensity histograms were fit with the modified Rician probability density function to estimate the standard deviation of the cross-talk-generated noise (${\sigma }_n$) and the useful signal intensity ($I_d$). As $M$ increases, the intensity distributions become narrower. Consequently, the noise quantified with ${\sigma }_n$ decreases, while the useful signal intensity, $I_d$ increases.