Motion artifact and speckle noise reduction in polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography by retinal tracking

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 106-122

  Sugita, Mitsuro ^a,c   Zotter, Stefan ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a   Makihira, Tomoyuki ^c   Saito, Kenichi ^c   Tomatsu, Nobuhiro ^c   Sato, Makoto ^c   Roberts, Philipp ^b   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^b   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

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

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CANON INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RANGES; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MOTION ARTIFACT; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL TRACKER; RETINAL TRACKING; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

CAPILLARY FLOW; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; MOTION; NOISE REDUCTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84890871751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.000106     Document Type: Article

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