Swept-wavelength sources for optical coherence tomography in the 1 μm range

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5861, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Nielsen, F D ^a   Thrane, L ^a   Black, J ^b   Hsu, K ^c   Bjarklev, A ^a   Anderson, P E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Reliant Technologies   (United States)

^c MICRON OPTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILTERED OUTPUT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL IMAGING; SWEPT-WAVELENGTH LIGHT SOURCES;

COHERENT LIGHT; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE; LASERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCANNING; TOPOLOGY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 28844448223     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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