Dual window method for processing spectroscopic optical coherence tomography signals with simultaneously high spectral and temporal resolution

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6799-6812

  Robles, Francisco ^a,b   Graf, Robert N ^b   Wax, Adam ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

GAUSSIAN WINDOW; OCT SIGNALS; PROCESSING METHOD; SPECTROSCOPIC OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME AND FREQUENCIES; TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; WINDOW METHODS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 65149088603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006799     Document Type: Article

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