Fig. 14.

STOC manipulation suppresses the cross-talk-generated noise in FF-SS-OCT imaging of the high-resolution 1951 USAF resolution chart covered by the 100 $\mu$m-thick rat skin ex vivo. (a) When STOC manipulation is disabled, the sample features hidden by the scattering layer cannot be seen due to cross-talk-generated noise. In that case, the scattering coherency matrix (middle column) is non-diagonal and the intensity distribution is wide (right column). (b) By enabling STOC manipulation we suppress the cross-talk-generated noise, so the previously hidden scrambled fragments of the sample become visible. Scattering coherency matrix is now diagonal (middle column) and the intensity distribution is narrow (right column). Red rectangle denotes the ROI used to determine scattering coherency matrix and intensity distributions.