Improvement in dynamic range limitation of swept source optical coherence tomography by true logarithmic amplification

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 404-414

  Liu, Bin ^a,b   Azimi, Ehsan ^a,b   Brezinski, Mark E ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

DYNAMIC RANGE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; SWEPT SOURCE; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; TIME DOMAIN;

COHERENT LIGHT;

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

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

EID: 77949564492     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.000404     Document Type: Article

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