Spatially deconvolved optical coherence tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2014-2021

  Woolliams, Peter D ^a   Ferguson, Robert A ^a   Hart, Christian ^a   Grimwood, Alex ^b   Tomlins, Peter H ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b DAVY FARADAY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; B-SCAN IMAGES; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LUCY-RICHARDSON; MEASUREMENTS OF; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; SPATIAL UNIFORMITY; SUBIMAGES;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77954693464     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.002014     Document Type: Article

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