Optical coherence tomographic imaging of human tissue at 1.55 μM and 1.81 μM using ER- and TM-doped fiber sources

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 76-79

  Bouma, Brett E ^a   Nelson, Lynn E ^a   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a   Jones, David J ^a   Brezinski, Mark E ^a,b   Fujimoto, James G ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber optics; Imaging; Interferometry in biomedicine; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; SILICA; TISSUE;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031700991     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429898     Document Type: Article

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