Dispersion in a grating-based optical delay line for optical coherence tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4115-4118

  Niblack, Walter K ^a   Schenk, John Otto ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Brezinski, Mark E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSION (WAVES); INTERFEROMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

OPTICAL DELAY LINES;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042810702     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004115     Document Type: Article

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