Measurements of the posterior structures of the human eye in vivo by partial coherence interferometry using diffractive optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2981, Issue , 1997, Pages 85-93

  Baumgartner, Angela ^a   Moeller, Bo A ^b   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a   Fercher, Adolf F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffractive optics; Fundus camera; Fundus layers; Human eye; Low coherence interferometry; Ophthalmology; Optical coherence tomography; Partial coherence interferometry; Retina

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

FUNDUS CAMERA; FUNDUS LAYERS; HUMAN EYE; LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; RETINA;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0001788489     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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