Retinal polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography at 1060 nm with 350 kHz A-scan rate using an Fourier domain mode locked laser

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Torzicky, Teresa ^a   Marschall, Sebastian ^b   Pircher, Michael ^a   Baumann, Bernhard ^a   Bonesi, Marco ^a   Zotter, Stefan ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Trasischker, Wolfgang ^a   Klein, Thomas ^c   Wieser, Wolfgang ^c   Biedermann, Benjamin ^c   Huber, Robert ^c   Andersen, Peter ^b   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choroid; Fourier domain mode locking; High speed; Optical coherence tomography; Polarization sensitive; Retinal imaging; Sclera; Spectral shaping; Swept source

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHOROID; EQUIPMENT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RETINA; SCLERA; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CHOROID; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; RETINA; SCLERA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84883581040     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.2.026008     Document Type: Article

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