Signal processing in optical coherence tomography for aerospace material characterization

Optical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Ping ^a   Groves, Roger M ^a   Benedictus, Rinze ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aerospace materials; Demodulation; Median filter; Microstructure; Optical coherence tomography; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE MATERIALS; BAND PASS FILTERING; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; DEMODULATION TECHNIQUES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; GLASS FIBER COMPOSITES; PROCESSING APPROACH; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS;

CHARACTERIZATION; DEMODULATION; DETECTOR CIRCUITS; MEDIAN FILTERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84879572700     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.52.3.033201     Document Type: Article

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