High definition live 3D-OCT in vivo: Design and evaluation of a 4D OCT engine with 1 GVoxel/s

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2963-2977

  Wieser, Wolfgang ^a   Draxinger, Wolfgang ^a   Klein, Thomas ^a   Karpf, Sebastian ^a   Pfeiffer, Tom ^a   Huber, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FOURIER SERIES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VISUALIZATION;

DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; FOURIER DOMAINS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; PLANKTONIC CRUSTACEANS; REAL-TIME DATA PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES; VOLUME ELEMENTS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84905639684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.002963     Document Type: Article

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