Balanced detection for spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 19280-19291

  Kuo, Wen Chuan ^a   Lai, Chih Ming ^b   Huang, Yi Shiang ^a   Chang, Cheng Yi ^c   Kuo, Yue Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BACKGROUND NOISE; BALANCED DETECTION; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; IMAGING QUALITY; INTENSITY NOISE; OPERATION METHODS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; SPECTRAL-DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881533786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019280     Document Type: Article

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