Enhanced visualization of choroidal vessels using ultrahigh resolution ophthalmic OCT at 1050 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 1980-1986

  Povazay B ^a   Bizheva, K ^a   Hermann, B ^a   Unterhuber, A ^a   Sattmann, H ^a   Fercher, A F ^a   Drexler, W ^a   Schubert, C ^a   Ahnelt, P K ^a   Mei, M ^b   Holzwarth, R ^b   Wadsworth, W J ^c   Knight, J C ^c   Russel, P St J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MENLO SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PIGMENTS; VISUALIZATION;

COHERENCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); RETINAL TOMOGRAMS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1942455545     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001980     Document Type: Article

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