Reduction of speckle noise for optical coherence tomography by the use of non-linear anisotropic diffusion

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5690, Issue , 2005, Pages 380-385

  Wang, Ruikang K ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast to noise ratio; Non linear anisotropic diffusion; Optical coherence tomography; Speckle noise

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE ABATEMENT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; NON-LINEAR ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); SPECKLE NOISE;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 21844457377     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.592673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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