Optical Coherence Microscopy and 3D Visualization

A traditional optical microscope requires a sample to be sliced into many thin sections to produce a 3D visualization of the imaged object. An optical coherence microscope uses optical interferometry to image thin slices of an object at various depths without the destruction of said object. The acquired image stack can then be processed to produce a 3D visualization of the object. My capstone project has two goals: (1) develop the instrumentation control for an optical coherence microscope (2) develop a program that produces a 3D visualization of the recorded images.