Ultrahigh-resolution versus speckle noise-reduction in spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 4221-4235

  Hangai, Masanori ^a   Yamamoto, Motoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Atsushi ^a   Yoshimura, Nagahisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; COHERENT LIGHT; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SPECKLE; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

BRUCH'S MEMBRANE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINAL STRUCTURE; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA; RETINA DISEASE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; STATISTICS; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 61549085559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004221     Document Type: Article

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