Super-achromatic rapid scanning microendoscope for ultrahigh-resolution OCT imaging

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1596-1601

  Wang, Danling ^b   Hunter, Boyd V ^c   Cobb, Michael J ^b   Li, Xingde ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c Archer OpTx Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical optical imaging; Endoscope; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Ultrahigh resolution (UHR) imaging

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ACHROMATIC COMPOUND MICROLENS; BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; INTERNAL LUMINAL ORGANS; MICROENDOSCOPES; SCANNING MICROENDOSCOPES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 38149009689     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.910797     Document Type: Article

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