Nonlinear optical contrast enhancement for optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 331-341

  Vinegoni, Claudio ^a   Bredfeldt, Jeremy S ^a   Marks, Daniel L ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHTING; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; REFRACTION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING (CARS); OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION (THG);

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 2342538253     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000331     Document Type: Article

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