Megahertz OCT for ultrawide-field retinal imaging with a 1050nm Fourier domain modelocked laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3044-3062

  Klein, Thomas ^a   Wieser, Wolfgang ^a   Eigenwillig, Christoph M ^a   Biedermann, Benjamin R ^a   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; DATA SETS; DELAY LINE; DEPTH-RESOLVED; DESIGN CONFIGURATIONS; EXTRACTION PROTOCOLS; FIELD DATA; FIELD DATA SETS; FOURIER DOMAINS; FUNDUS IMAGE; HIGH DEFINITION; LASER OUTPUT; LASER PERFORMANCE; MEGA-PIXEL; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MW OUTPUT; OCT IMAGING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RETINAL IMAGING; SLOW-AXIS; SPECTRAL SHAPING; SWEPT SOURCE; TELECOM FIBERS; ULTRA HIGH SPEED; ULTRA-WIDE; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ARTICLE; EYE FUNDUS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 79951610223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003044     Document Type: Article

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