Comparative study of optical sources in the near infrared for optical coherence tomography applications

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Carrion, Lionel ^a   Lestrade, Michel ^a   Xu, Zhiqiang ^a   Touma, Gaby ^a   Maciejko, Romain ^a   Bertrand, Michel ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absorption; Attenuation; Coherent optical systems; Medical imaging; Optical properties

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; GRAPHIC METHODS; LIGHT SOURCES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

ATTENUATION; LOW-COHERENCE LIGHT SOURCE;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 34247556500     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2710242     Document Type: Article

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