Dispersion encoded full range frequency domain optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-24

  Hofer, Bernd ^a,b   Považay, Boris ^a   Hermann, Boris ^a   Unterhuber, Angelika ^a   Matz, Gerald ^b   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT SOURCES; MIRRORS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; COMPLEX CONJUGATES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; PHASE FLUCTUATION; POST PROCESSING; SUPPRESSION RATIOS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RETINA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 58449120233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000007     Document Type: Article

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