A zero-crossing detection method applied to Doppler OCT

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4394-4412

  Xu, Zhiqiang ^a   Carrion, Lionel ^a   Maciejko, Roman ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; LAMINAR FLOW; SIGNAL DETECTION;

DOPPLER FREQUENCY; OCT SIGNALS; ZERO-CROSSING DETECTION METHOD;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 41849148297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004394     Document Type: Article

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