Polarimetry noise in fiber-based optical coherence tomography instrumentation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 16830-16842

  Zhang, Ellen Ziyi ^a   Vakoc, Benjamin J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; ELLIPSOMETRY; POLARIZATION; TEXTILE FIBERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL UTILITY; EMPIRICAL DATA; HIGH NOISE LEVELS; NOISE LEVELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZED SYSTEM; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROCESSING SIGNAL;

POLARIMETERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 80052243192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.016830     Document Type: Article

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