Estimation of longitudinal resolution in optical coherence imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 5256-5262

  Akcay, Ceyhun ^a   Parrein, Pascale ^a   Rolland, Jannick P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 0036711943     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005256     Document Type: Article

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