Quantitative comparison of contrast and imaging depth of ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography images in 800-1700 nm wavelength region

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 282-294

  Ishida, Shutaro ^a   Nishizawa, Norihiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; WATER ABSORPTION;

1060 NM; 1550 NM; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; HOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS; IMAGING DEPTH; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84863968558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.000282     Document Type: Article

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