Restoration of optical coherence images of living tissue using the clean algorithm

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-75

  Schmitt, Joseph M ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

CLEAN; Deconvolution; Interferometry in biomedicine; Optical coherence tomography; Tissue optics interferometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECKLE; TISSUE;

PARTIAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031675860     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429863     Document Type: Article

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