Retinal pigment epithelium segmentation by polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16410-16422

  Götzinger, Erich ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a   Geitzenauer, Wolfgang ^a   Ahlers, Christian ^a   Baumann, Bernhard ^a   Michels, Stephan ^a,b   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CAPILLARY FLOW; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

BACKSCATTERED LIGHT; POLARIZATION SCRAMBLING; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION STATE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SIMPLER ALGORITHMS; TISSUE PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 54249108911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016410     Document Type: Article

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