Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images using tissue viscoelasticity

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kennedy, Brendan F ^a   Curatolo, Andrea ^a   Hillman, Timothy R ^b   Saunders, Christobel M ^a,c   Sampson, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography; Speckle reduction; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; COREGISTRATION; LYMPH NODE TISSUES; SOFT TISSUE; SPATIAL DISTORTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE REDUCTION; VISCOELASTIC CREEP;

ELASTICITY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

SPECKLE;

ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ARTIFACTS; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79957803274     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3548239     Document Type: Article

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