Real-time assessment of retinal blood flow with ultrafast acquisition by color Doppler Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 3116-3121

  Leitgeb, R A ^a   Schmetterer, L ^a   Drexler, W ^a   Fercher, A F ^a   Zawadzki, R J ^b   Bajraszewski, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DATA ACQUISITION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FOURIER OPTICS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL OPTICS INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME IMAGING; TISSUE IMAGING;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 2942703836     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.003116     Document Type: Article

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