Optical imaging of hard and soft dental tissues using discretely swept optical frequency domain reflectometry optical coherence tomography at wavelengths from 1560 to 1600nm

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Kakuma, Hideo ^a   Ohbayashi, Kohji ^b   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C band; dental optical coherence tomography; L band; optical coherence tomography; optical frequency domain reflectometry optical coherence tomography; superstructure grating distributed Bragg reflector laser

Indexed keywords

C-BAND; DENTAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; L-BAND; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; SUPERSTRUCTURE- GRATING DISTRIBUTED BRAGG-REFLECTOR LASER;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; TISSUE;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TOOTH;

EID: 44849135188     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2839042     Document Type: Article

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