Advanced modelling of optical coherence tomography systems

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1307-1327

  Andersen, Peter E ^a   Thrane, Lars ^a   Yura, Harold T ^b   Tycho, Andreas ^a   Jørgensen, Thomas M ^a   Frosz, Michael H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCATTERING REGIMES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); TISSUE PHANTOM;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ATTENUATION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 1942456515     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/7/017     Document Type: Review

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