Cancellation of coherent artifacts in optical coherence tomography imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 28, 2001, Pages 5124-5131

  Piao, Daqing ^a   Zhu, Quing ^a   Dutta, Niloy K ^a   Yan, Shikui ^a   Otis, Linda L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT ARTIFACTS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0009461503     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005124     Document Type: Article

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