Contrast limits of coherence-gated imaging in scattering media

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2979-2983

  Pan, Yingtian ^a,b   Birngruber, Reginald ^a   Engelhardt, Ralf ^a  

^a MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence gated imaging; Imaging contrast limits; Low coherence interference; Multiple scattering effects; Time resolved imaging; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000838583     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002979     Document Type: Article

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