Experimental confirmation of potential swept source optical coherence tomography performance limitations

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 6151-6158

  Zheng, Kathy ^a   Liu, Bin ^a,b   Huang, Chuanyong ^a,b   Brezinski, Mark E ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BANDWIDTH FREQUENCY; EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OCT; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KNEE MENISCUS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHTING; MENISCI, TIBIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 58749112783     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006151     Document Type: Article

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