Measurement and imaging of water concentration in human cornea with differential absorption optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2190-2197

  Pircher, Michael ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer ^a   Fercher, Adolf F ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DEUTERIUM; LIGHT SOURCES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; SCATTERING EFFECTS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 2942703877     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002190     Document Type: Article

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