Retinal, anterior segment and full eye imaging using ultrahigh speed swept source OCT with vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2733-2751

  Grulkowski, Ireneusz ^a   Liu, Jonathan J ^a   Potsaid, Benjamin ^a,b   Jayaraman, Vijaysekhar ^c   Lu, Chen D ^a   Jiang, James ^b   Cable, Alex E ^b   Duker, Jay S ^d   Fujimoto, James G ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b THORLABS INC   (United States)

^c Praevium Research Inc   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPHTHALMOLOGY; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

1060 NM; ANTERIOR SEGMENT; CRYSTALLINE LENS; DEPTH RANGE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; IMAGING DEPTH; IN-VIVO; INTRAOCULAR; LIGHT PENETRATION; LONG COHERENCE LENGTH; NONCONTACT MEASUREMENTS; OCT IMAGING; OPERATING MODES; RETINAL IMAGING; SCAN RATES; SWEEPING RATE; SWEPT SOURCE OCT; ULTRA HIGH SPEED; VASCULATURE; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS; WIDE-FIELD;

MOEMS;

EID: 84869126462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.002733     Document Type: Article

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