Comparison of speckle reduction using polarization diversity and frequency compounding in optical coherence tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5316, Issue , 2004, Pages 196-204

  Støren, Trude ^a   Røyset, Arne ^b   Giskeødegård, Nils Håvard ^a   Pedersen, Hans M ^a   Lindmo, Tore ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Frequency compounding; Low Coherence Interferometry; Optical Coherence Tomography; Polarization diversity; Speckle; Speckle averaging; Speckle reduction; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; LOW-COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; SPECKLE AVERAGING; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

SPECKLE;

EID: 5644228901     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.530608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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