Tissue surface as the reference arm in Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Krstajić, Nikola ^a   Brown, Christian Tom A ^b   Dholakia, Kishan ^b   Giardini, Mario Ettore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common path interferometry; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84869129468     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.7.071305     Document Type: Article

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