Digital phase stabilization to improve detection sensitivity for optical coherence tomography

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3365-3372

  Tomlins, Peter H ^a,b   Wang, Ruikang K ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Oregon Health and Science University Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

High sensitivity; Optical coherence tomography; Signal processing; Stabilization; White light interferometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

DIGITAL PHASE STABILIZATION; FOURIER DOMAIN SYSTEM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 36248930338     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/18/11/016     Document Type: Article

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