Inherent homogenous media dispersion compensation in frequency domain optical coherence tomography by accurate k-sampling

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 687-693

  Tumlinson, Alexandre R ^a   Hofer, Bernd ^b   Winkler, Amy M ^a   Povazay, Boris ^b   Drexler, Wolfgang ^b   Barton, Jennifer K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SAMPLING;

AXIAL POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; DISPERSION GLASS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN SAMPLES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 42549126934     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000687     Document Type: Article

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