Which optical effect limits resolution in optical coherence tomography (OCT)?

💡 Explanation

Resolution decreases because OCT relies on signal autocorrelation where constructive and destructive interference aka "speckle" reduce signal clarity; therefore spatial resolution suffers rather than chromatic effects that blur color or pulse spreads causing noise otherwise.

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