Gabor-based fusion technique for Optical Coherence Microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3632-3642

  Rolland, Jannick P ^a,b   Meemon, Panomsak ^b   Murali, Supraja ^b   Thompson, Kevin P ^c   Lee, Kye Sung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c OPTICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PROBES;

DATA FUSION METHODS; DYNAMIC FOCUSING; FULL-FIELD; FUSION TECHNIQUES; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HUMAN SKIN; IMAGING DEPTH; IN-VIVO IMAGES; LATERAL RESOLUTION; MANUAL INTERVENTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROBE; SUBCELLULAR RESOLUTION; TRANSLATION STAGE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; MICROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77149153385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003632     Document Type: Article

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