Heterodyne swept-source optical coherence tomography for complete complex conjugate ambiguity removal

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Davis, Anjul M ^a   Choma, Michael A ^a   Izatt, Joseph A ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical imaging; Ophthalmic imaging; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORNEA; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARTIFACTS; CORNEA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT; FOURIER OPTICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FOURIER DOMAIN TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY-SHIFTING ELEMENTS; HERMITIAN SYMMETRIC; OPTHALMIC IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 29244452237     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2136147     Document Type: Article

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