Rapid wavelength-swept spectrally encoded confocal microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 8214-8221

  Boudoux, C ^a   Yun, S H ^b   Oh, W Y ^b   White, W M ^b   Iftimia, N V ^b   Shishkov, M ^b   Bouma, B E ^b   Tearney, G J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBERS; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

OPTICAL FIBER PROBE; SPECTRALLY ENCODED CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY (SECM);

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 30144436276     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008214     Document Type: Article

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