Three-dimensional speckle suppression in optical coherence tomography based on the curvelet transform

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1024-1032

  Jian, Zhongping ^a   Yu, Lingfeng ^a   Rao, Bin ^a   Tromberg, Bruce J ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; SPECKLE; TOMOGRAPHY;

3-D PROCESSING; CURVELET TRANSFORMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; NON-INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTIMAL SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 75249103430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001024     Document Type: Article

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