Signal and resolution enhancements in dual beam optical coherence tomography of the human eye

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-54

  Baumgartner, Angela ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a   Sattmann, Harald ^a   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a   Fercher, Adolf F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diffractive optics; Dispersion; Human eye; Optical coherence tomography; Partial coherence interferometry; Resolution; Retina

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031647395     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429861     Document Type: Article

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