Frequency estimation precision in Doppler optical coherence tomography using the Cramer-Rao lower bound

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 410-416

  Yazdanfar, Siavash ^a   Yang, Changhuei ^a   Sarunic, Marinko V ^a   Izatt, Joseph A ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COHERENT LIGHT; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHASE MEASUREMENT; TISSUE;

BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (DOCT); FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 13544275832     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000410     Document Type: Article

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