Optical coherence tomography speckle reduction by a partially spatially coherent source

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Kim, Jeehyun ^a,b   Miller, Donald T ^c   Kim, Eunha ^a   Oh, Sanghoon ^a   Oh, Junghwan ^a   Milner, Thomas E ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian Schell model; Multimode optical fiber; Optical coherence tomography; Partially spatially coherent source; Speckle

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

GAUSSIAN-SCHELL MODEL; MULTIMODE SOURCE FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARTIALLY SPATIALLY COHERENT SOURCE; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33645214596     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2138031     Document Type: Article

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