Optical coherence tomography with online visualization of more than seven rendered volumes per second

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Probst, Joachim ^a,b   Hillmann, Dierck ^c   Lankenau, Eva ^a,b   Winter, Christan ^c   Oelckers, Stefan ^d   Koch, Peter ^c   Hüttmann, Gereon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c Thorlabs HL AG   (Germany)

^d Möller Wedel GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography; Real time; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

3-D RENDERING; IMAGING SPEED; MEGAPIXELS; ONLINE VISUALIZATIONS; REAL TIME; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OCT; SURGICAL MICROSCOPES; ULTRA HIGH SPEED; VIDEO CARDS;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; ONLINE SYSTEM; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSURGERY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77956626349     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3314898     Document Type: Article

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