Optical coherence - Gated imaging of biological tissues

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1029-1034

  Pan, Y ^a,b   Lankenau, E ^a   Welzel, J ^c   Birngruber, R ^a   Engelhardt, R ^a  

^a MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lubeck ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS; OPTICAL COHERENCE GATED IMAGING; PRESURGICAL AID; SINGLE MODE FIBER OPTIC INTERFEROMETER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030360921     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577332     Document Type: Article

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