Adaptive spectral apodization for sidelobe reduction in optical coherence tomography images

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1281-1287

  Marks, Daniel ^a   Carney, P Scott ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Optical coherence; Optical sources; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BREAST; CELLS, CULTURED; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETERS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT SOURCES; PUMPING (LASER); SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RAT MAMMARY TISSUE; SIDELOBE REDUCTION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 12844255147     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1806471     Document Type: Article

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