Attenuation of mirror image and enhancement of the signal-to-noise ratio in a Talbot bands optical coherence tomography system

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Bradu, Adrian ^a   Podoleanu, Adrian Gh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

mirror terms; optical coherence tomography; Talbot bands

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL LENS; FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN SKIN IN VIVO; LINEAR CCD; MIRROR IMAGES; OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; SENSITIVITY PROFILES; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPHERICAL MIRROR; TALBOT BANDS; TWO BEAMS;

CCD CAMERAS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

MIRRORS;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 79960186973     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3598446     Document Type: Article

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