Comprehensive in vivo micro-vascular imaging of the human eye by dual-beam-scan Doppler optical coherence angiography

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1271-1283

  Makita, Shuichi ^a   Jaillon, Franck ^a   Yamanari, Masahiro ^a   Miura, Masahiro ^a,b   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER; DUAL-BEAM; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HUMAN EYE; IMAGING SPEED; IN-VIVO; LABEL FREE; MICRO-VASCULATURE; MICRON-SCALE RESOLUTION; MICROVASCULAR NETWORK; MICROVESSELS; OPTICAL COHERENCES; PROBING BEAMS; SAMPLING RATES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR IMAGING; VASCULATURE; WIDE AREA;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROVASCULATURE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINOSCOPE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROVESSELS; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 78751519380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001271     Document Type: Article

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