Fast-Fourier-domain delay line for in vivo optical coherence tomography with a polygonal scanner

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4606-4611

  Oldenburg, Amy L ^a   Reynolds, J Joshua ^a   Marks, Daniel L ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LARVA; OPTICS; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LARVA; OPTICS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

BANDWIDTH; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MIRRORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0042381891     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004606     Document Type: Article

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