Image enhancement in optical coherence tomography using deconvolution

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1365-1367

  Kulkarni, M D ^a   Thomas, C W ^a,c   Izatt, J A ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Image enhancement; Optical tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ITERATIVE DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0031191150     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970913     Document Type: Article

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