Fast dispersion encoded full range optical coherence tomography for retinal imaging at 800 nm and 1060 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4898-4919

  Hofer, Bernd ^a,b,c   Považay, Boris ^a,b   Unterhuber, Angelika ^a,b   Wang, Ling ^b   Hermann, Boris ^a,b   Rey, Sara ^b   Matz, Gerald ^c   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

1060 NM; COMPLEX CONJUGATES; DEDICATED HARDWARE; DISPERSION LEVELS; FINITE RESOLUTION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; IN-VIVO; MULTI-LAYERED SCATTERING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FIBRE; PROCESSING TIME; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY; RETINAL IMAGING; SAMPLING POINTS; SIGNAL COMPONENTS; SUPPRESSION RATIOS; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

DISPERSIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77749298191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004898     Document Type: Article

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