Volumetric microvascular imaging of human retina using optical coherence tomography with a novel motion contrast technique

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 22190-22200

  Fingler, Jeff ^a   Zawadzki, Robert J ^b   Werner, John S ^b   Schwartz, Dan ^c   Fraserl, Scott E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; FLOW VELOCITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST IMAGING; HUMAN RETINA; MICROVASCULAR; NOISE ANALYSIS; PHASE VARIANCE; RETINAL LAYERS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; VASCULATURE;

COHERENT LIGHT;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EYE MOVEMENT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; RETINA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 72449129943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022190     Document Type: Article

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