Transverse motion as a source of noise and reduced correlation of the Doppler phase shift in spectral domain OCT

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19698-19713

  Walther, Julia ^a   Koch, Edmund ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

AXIAL VELOCITY COMPONENT; BACKSCATTERING SIGNALS; PROPORTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OCT; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRANSVERSE VELOCITY;

PHASE SHIFT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RHEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 70749100329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019698     Document Type: Article

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