Endoscope-tip interferometer for ultrahigh resolution frequency domain optical coherence tomography in mouse colon

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1878-1887

  Tumlinson, Alexandre R ^a,b   Barton, Jennifer K ^b   Považay, Boris ^a   Sattman, Harald ^a   Unterhuber, Angelika ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFLECTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ENDOSCOPE TIP; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); POLARIZATION MATCHING;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33644746298     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001878     Document Type: Article

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