In Intensity Correlation Optical Coherence Tomography (ICA-OCT), an OCT spectrum is processed into a two-dimensional signal incorporating elements which do not correspond to the structure of the imaged object. These elements, called artefacts, display a very well-defined behaviour in the presence of uncompensated chromatic dispersion. More importantly, their behaviour reflects only the dispersion of the layer which the artefacts uniquely correspond to. We show preliminary results indicating that a neural network can interpret this layer-specific behaviour and output corresponding Group Velocity Dispersion values, thus creating a depth-resolved dispersion profile of the object.
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