Digital signal processing in optical coherence tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2981, Issue , 1997, Pages 2-6

  Kulkarni, Manish D ^a   Izatt, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University ^*  (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Deconvolution; Digital signal processing; Image enhancement; Interferometry; Medical and biological imaging; Optical coherence tomography; Resolution improvement

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; CONVOLUTION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMPULSE RESPONSE; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; INVARIANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MODEL STRUCTURES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BACK SCATTERED; BIO STRUCTURES; BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; COHERENCE; COHERENCE INTERFEROMETERS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; IMAGING MODALITIES; INCIDENT FIELDS; INTERFEROGRAM; LINEAR SHIFT INVARIANTS; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTIONS; MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCES; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; SURFACE IMAGING; TISSUE INTERACTIONS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0345816228     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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