Pixelation effect removal from fiber bundle probe based optical coherence tomography imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7427-7439

  Han, Jae Ho ^a   Lee, Junghoon ^a   Kang, Jin U ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FIBERS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PROBES; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING FILTER; GRAY LEVEL INTENSITY; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS; PERIODIC INTENSITY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FIBER OPTICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77950203740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007427     Document Type: Article

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