Real-time and high-performance calibration method for high-speed swept-source optical coherence tomography

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

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

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Arthritis; Calibration; Coherence; Optical coherence tomography; Plaque rupture

Indexed keywords

ARTHRITIS; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION METHOD; CALIBRATION PROCESS; DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH-SPEED; MEASURING POINTS; OCT SIGNALS; OPERATION PERFORMANCE; PLAQUE RUPTURE; REAL-TIME CALIBRATION; SWEPT SOURCE; WAVE NUMBERS;

ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77953146884     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3285660     Document Type: Article

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