Visualization of microvasculature by dual-beam phase-resolved Doppler optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1217-1227

  Zotter, Stefan ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a   Torzicky, Teresa ^a   Bonesi, Marco ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; EYE PROTECTION; VISUALIZATION;

BLOOD CAPILLARY; DATA SETS; DOPPLER ANALYSIS; DOPPLER OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL-BEAM; HIGH FLOW; HUMAN EYE; MICRO-VASCULATURE; MICROVASCULAR NETWORK; OPTIC NERVE HEAD; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; VARIABLE VELOCITIES;

TOMOGRAPHY;

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

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

EID: 78751529751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001217     Document Type: Article

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