Extended focus high-speed swept source OCT with self-reconstructive illumination

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 12141-12155

  Blatter, Cedric ^a   Grajciar, Branislav ^a   Eigenwillig, Christoph M ^b   Wieser, Wolfgang ^b   Biedermann, Benjamin R ^b   Huber, Robert ^b   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ACQUISITION CARDS; AXIAL VESSELS; BESSEL BEAM; DARK FIELD IMAGING; DECORRELATION EFFECTS; DEPTH RANGE; DYNAMIC RANGE; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; GAUSSIANS; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH-SPEED; SAMPLE SURFACE; SELF-RECONSTRUCTION PROPERTY; SWEPT SOURCE; SWEPT SOURCE OCT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

GLASS; MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD VESSEL; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTIFACTS; BLOOD VESSELS; DERMIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSPHERES; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 79959471020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012141     Document Type: Article

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