High speed optical coherence microscopy with autofocus adjustment and a miniaturized endoscopic imaging probe

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4222-4239

  Aguirre, Aaron D ^a,b   Sawinski, Juergen ^c   Huang, Shu Wei ^a   Zhou, Chao ^a   Denk, Winfried ^a   Fujimoto, James G ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; POLARIZATION; PROBES;

1060 NM; AUTO-FOCUS; AUTO-FOCUSING; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; CELLULAR IMAGE; CELLULAR RESOLUTION; COMPENSATION METHOD; ELECTRO-OPTIC PHASE; ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING; EX-VIVO; FRAME RATE; HIGH-RESOLUTION CELLULAR IMAGING; HIGH-SPEED; HUMAN SKIN; HUMAN TISSUES; IN-VIVO; OPTICAL COHERENCE MICROSCOPY; SYSTEM DESIGN; TIME ALIGNMENT;

COHERENT LIGHT;

ALGORITHM; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; ENDOSCOPE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY; MINIATURIZATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77749279964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004222     Document Type: Article

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