Precision of extracting absorption profiles from weakly scattering media with spectroscopic time-domain optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1677-1688

  Hermann, B ^a   Bizheva, K ^a   Unterhuber, A ^a   Povazay B ^a   Sattmann, H ^a   Schmetterer, L ^a   Fercher, A F ^a   Drexler, W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; CHROMOPHORES; COHERENT LIGHT; DATA ACQUISITION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GELS; SPECTROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHANTOMS; SCATTERING MEDIA; SPECTROSCOPIC OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (SOCT); ULTRAFAST LASERS;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 2942733610     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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