En-face scanning optical coherence tomography with ultra-high resolution for material investigation

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1015-1024

  Wiesauer, Karin ^a   Pircher, Michael ^b   Götzinger, Erich ^b   Bauer, Siegfried ^c   Engelke, Rainer ^d   Ahrens, Gisela ^d   Grützner, Gabi ^d   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^b   Stifter, David ^a  

^a Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^d MICRO RESIST TECHNOLOGY GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN;

ACOUSTO-OPTICAL DEVICES; BROADBAND FEMTO-SECOND LASERS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); ULTRAFAST LASERS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 14744293493     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001015     Document Type: Article

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