Improved lateral resolution in optical coherence tomography by digital focusing using two-dimensional numerical diffraction method

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7634-7641

  Yu, Lingfeng ^a   Rao, Bin ^b   Zhang, Jun ^a   Su, Jianping ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Guo, Shuguang ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COHERENCE GATE; LATERAL RESOLUTION; SCALAR DIFFRACTION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250184493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007634     Document Type: Article

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