Measurement of the axial point spread function in scattering media using single-mode fiber-based optical coherence tomography

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 227-233

  Van Leeuwen, Ton G ^a,b   Faber, Dirk J ^a   Aalders, Maurice C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography; Point spread function (PSF); Tissue optical properties

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFLECTION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TISSUE;

AXIAL POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; GAUSSIAN INTENSITY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0242661608     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.813299     Document Type: Article

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