Tissue imaging by OFDR-OCT using an SSG-DBR laser

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5690, Issue , 2005, Pages 101-113

  Choi, DongHak ^a   Amano, Takuji ^a   Hiro Oka, Hideaki ^a   Furukawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyazawa, Takeo ^b   Yoshimura, Ryoko ^b   Nakanishi, Motoi ^a   Shimizu, Kimiya ^a   Ohbayashi, Kohji ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medical Imaging; OCT; OFDR; SSG DBR laser

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DETECTORS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMAN SKIN; REFLECTOMETRY; SUPERSTRUCTURES; TUNING SPEED;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 21844431841     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.592544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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