Measurement of fluid-flow-velocity profile in turbid media by the use of optical Doppler tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 144-149

  Wang, Xiao Jun ^a,b   Milner, Thomas E ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a   Stuart Nelson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler shift; Fluid flow profile; Low coherence interferometry; Optical Doppler tomography; Optically turbid media

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001614554     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000144     Document Type: Article

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