Experimental validation of an optimized signal processing method to handle non-linearity in swept-source optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10446-10461

  Vergnole, Sébastien ^a   Lévesque, Daniel ^a   Lamouche, Guy ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CONVOLUTION; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; LINEARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; EFFICIENT METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; LASER SOURCES; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; LOMB PERIODOGRAM; NON-LINEARITY; NONUNIFORM; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OVER SAMPLING; RESAMPLING; SPLINE INTERPOLATION; SWEPT SOURCE; VANDERMONDE MATRIX; WAVENUMBER SPACES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77952714333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010446     Document Type: Article

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