Flow velocity estimation by complex ambiguity free joint Spectral and Time domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14281-14297

  Szkulmowski, Maciej ^a   Grulkowski, Ireneusz ^a   Szlag, Daniel ^a   Szkulmowska, Anna ^a   Kowalczyk, Andrzej ^a   Wojtkowski, Maciej ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AMBIGUITY REMOVALS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; FAST COMPUTATION; FLOW VELOCITY ESTIMATION; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 68349158792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014281     Document Type: Article

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