Reference spectrum extraction and fixed-pattern noise removal in optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24395-24404

  Moon, Sucbei ^a   Lee, Sang Won ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DATA POINTS; FIXED PATTERN NOISE; FOURIER-DOMAIN OCT; HIGH-SPEED; HORIZONTAL SEGMENTS; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LINE DATA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; REFERENCE SPECTRUM; SPECTRUM SUBTRACTIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS TOOLS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 78649688058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024395     Document Type: Article

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