Application of the maximum entropy method to spectral-domain optical coherence tomography for enhancing axial resolution

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5228-5236

  Takahashi, Yoshiyuki ^a,b   Watanabe, Yuuki ^a   Sato, Manabu ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AXIAL RESOLUTION (AR); MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD (MEM);

COHERENT LIGHT;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENTROPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; ENTROPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 35448967391     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005228     Document Type: Article

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