Joint aperture detection for speckle reduction and increased collection efficiency in ophthalmic MHz OCT

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 619-634

  Klein, Thomas ^a   André, Raphael ^a   Wieser, Wolfgang ^a   Pfeiffer, Tom ^a   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECKLE; TISSUE;

ACTIVE CHANNELS; ANGLE-RESOLVED; ANGULAR SCATTERING; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; IN-VIVO IMAGING; PARASITIC REFLECTIONS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; ULTRA HIGH SPEED;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGING; JOINT APERTURE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; RETINA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

EID: 84875703289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.000619     Document Type: Article

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