Real-time polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography data processing with parallel computing

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 6365-6370

  Liu, Gangjun ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Yu, Lingfeng ^b   Xie, Tuqiang ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; POLARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

3D POLARIZATIONS; CHICKEN MUSCLES; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROCESSING ABILITY; REAL TIME; REALTIME PROCESSING; SHARED-MEMORY PARALLELS; SWEPT SOURCE;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 73349112542     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006365     Document Type: Article

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