Performance of reduced bit-depth acquisition for optical frequency domain imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 16957-16968

  Goldberg, Brian D ^a,b   Vakoc, Benjamin J ^a,b   Oh, Wang Yuhl ^a   Suter, Melissa J ^a   Waxman, Sergio ^c   Freilich, Mark I ^c   Bouma, Brett E ^a,b   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORIES; MEDICINE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL MEDICINE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HUMAN CORONARY ARTERIES; LASER PERFORMANCE; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN IMAGING; SYSTEM SENSITIVITY;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

ARTICLE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; STENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; STENTS;

EID: 70349204306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016957     Document Type: Article

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