A system and method for optical data acquisition of an illuminated turbid medium object, the system comprises a variable structured light detector and a controller. The light detector is adapted to retrieve light from a plurality of detection points of an output surface of the illuminated turbid medium object with a plurality of detection patterns. The controller is adapted to control the variable structured light detector for the variable structured light detector to use a detection pattern corresponding to an illumination pattern of the illuminated turbid medium object. The light detector is further adapted to optically measure a combination of retrieved light from the plurality of detection points as an optical measurement. The controller is further adapted to store an illumination pattern identifier indicative of the illumination pattern, a detection pattern identifier indicative of the detection pattern and the corresponding optical measurement.
