Ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography and pancorrection for cellular imaging of the living human retina

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11083-11094

  Fernández, Enrique J ^a,b,c   Hermann, Boris ^a,c   Považay, Boris ^a,c   Huber, Angelika Unter ^a,c   Sattmann, Harald ^c   Hofer, Bernd ^a,c   Ahnelt, Peter K ^c   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a,c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATORIO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BANDWIDTH; DISEASE CONTROL; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SAPPHIRE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISION;

CONE PHOTORECEPTORS; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; ISOTROPIC RESOLUTION; MONOCHROMATIC ABERRATIONS; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECTURE; TITANIUM:SAPPHIRE LASERS; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 47849128986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011083     Document Type: Article

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