Speckle noise reduction in optical coherence tomography of paint layers

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-107

  Hughes, Michael ^a   Spring, Marika ^b   Podoleanu, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b National Gallery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PAINT; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; ANGULAR COMPOUNDING; COMPOUNDING TECHNIQUES; EDGE DETECTION ALGORITHMS; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA SETS;

SPECKLE;

PAINT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PAINT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 75449091368     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000099     Document Type: Article

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