Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography by "path length encoded" angular compounding

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 260-263

  Iftimia, N ^a   Bouma, B E ^a   Tearney, G J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheters; Endoscopes; Optical coherence tomography; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; COHERENT LIGHT; DISEASES; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE ACQUISITION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATH LENGTH ENCODING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FOREARM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN; STATISTICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FOREARM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 0037592974     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1559060     Document Type: Article

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