A digital frequency ramping method for enhancing Doppler flow imaging in Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3951-3963

  Yuan, Zhijia ^a   Luo, Z C ^a,c   Ren, H G ^a   Du, C W ^b,c   Pan, Yingtian ^a  

^a Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE NOISE; TOMOGRAPHY;

DOPPLER FD-OCT; DOPPLER FLOW IMAGING; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; FLOW DETECTION; FLOW QUANTIFICATION; FOURIER-DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; HARDWARE MODIFICATIONS; TISSUE PHANTOM;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 61549090906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003951     Document Type: Article

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