Improved phase-resolved optical Doppler tomography using the Kasai velocity estimator and histogram segmentation

Optics Communications

Volumn 208, Issue 4-6, 2002, Pages 209-214

  Yang, Victor X D ^a,b,d   Gordon, Maggie L ^b,d   Mok, Alvin ^b,d   Zhao, Yonghua ^e   Chen, Zhongping ^e   Cobbold, Richard S C ^c   Wilson, Brian C ^b,d   Vitkin, I Alex ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Microcirculation; Microstructural imaging; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Optical doppler tomography (ODT)

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW VELOCITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MICROCIRCULATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; DEMODULATORS; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BI-DIRECTIONAL FLOWS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HISTOGRAM SEGMENTATION; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; OPTICAL DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY; QUADRATURE DEMODULATORS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

VELOCITY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

MICROSTRUCTURAL IMAGING; OPTICAL DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY (ODT);

EID: 0037099140     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)01501-8     Document Type: Article

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