Simultaneous B-M-mode scanning method for real-time full-range Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1861-1865

  Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^a   Makita, Shuichi ^a   Endo, Takashi ^a   Aoki, Gouki ^a   Itoh, Masahide ^a   Yatagai, Toyohiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER OPTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPLEX SPECTRA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PLASTIC PLATES; TRANSVERSAL POSITION;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33645790327     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001861     Document Type: Review

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