Dual beam heterodyne Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9254-9266

  Bachmann, Adrian H ^a   Michaely, Roland ^a   Lasser, Theo ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HETERODYNING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE STABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARBITRARILY POSITIONED INTERFACES; COMPLEX AMBIGUITY; DEPTH RANGE;

SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 34547469627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009254     Document Type: Article

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