Three-dimensional visualization of choroidal vessels by using standard and ultra-high resolution scattering optical coherence angiography

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7538-7550

  Hong, Youngjoo ^a,b,c   Makita, Shuichi ^a   Yamanari, Masahiro ^a   Miura, Masahiro ^a,d   Kim, Soohyun ^b   Yatagai, Toyohiko ^a   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Computational Optics and Ophthalmology Group ^*  (Japan)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENTS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TISSUE; VISION;

AXIAL RESOLUTION; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN RETINAL IMAGING; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (SDOCT);

CELL MEMBRANES;

EID: 34250166520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007538     Document Type: Article

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