Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography by frequency compounding

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 565-569

  Pircher, Michael ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer ^a   Fercher, Adolf F ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomedical optics; Frequency compounding; Optical coherence tomography; Speckle

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; INTERFEROMETERS; SPECKLE; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FINGER; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SKIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 0141867684     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1578087     Document Type: Article

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