Femtosecond laser micro-inscription of optical coherence tomography resolution test artifacts

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1319-1327

  Tomlins, Peter H ^a   Smith, Graham N ^b   Woolliams, Peter D ^c   Rasakanthan, Janarthanan ^b   Sugden, Kate ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; FUSED SILICA SUBSTRATES; LINE DEFECTS; LOCALIZED POINTS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; RESOLUTION TESTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRIDS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052770306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.001319     Document Type: Article

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