Ultrahigh-resolution, high-speed, Fourier domain optical coherence tomography and methods for dispersion compensation

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2404-2422

  Wojtkowski, Maciej ^a,c   Srinivasan, Vivek J ^a   Ko, Tony H ^a   Fujimoto, James G ^a   Kowalczyk, Andrzej ^b   Duker, Jay S ^c  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BANDWIDTH; COHERENT LIGHT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

DIGITAL FRINGE DETECTION; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; IMAGING SPEED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT);

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2942726216     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002404     Document Type: Article

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