Simulated data plays an important role in the process of developing and testing new processing methods in optical coherence tomography (OCT); they provide ground truths, and enable the generation of large amounts of data with high diversity in terms of tissue and system properties, without the burdens of experimental acquisitions. Here, we present an open-source MATLAB simulation tool that allows the generation of synthetic OCT data in an efficient and versatile way, while modeling the most relevant characteristics of the OCT signal, by combining the well-known forward model of OCT imaging with scattering and polarization properties of tissue.
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