Noise statistics of phase-resolved optical coherence tomography imaging: Singleand dual-beam-scan Doppler optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 4830-4848

  Makita, Shuichi ^a   Jaillon, Franck ^a   Jahan, Israt ^a   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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EID: 84894808193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.004830     Document Type: Article

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