Optical coherence tomography today: Speed, contrast, and multimodality

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Drexler, Wolfgang ^a   Liu, Mengyang ^a   Kumar, Abhishek ^a   Kamali, Tschackad ^a   Unterhuber, Angelika ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a  

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

Author keywords

akinetic swept source.; multimodal imaging; nonlinear optical microscopy; optical coherence angiography; optical coherence tomography; photoacoustic imaging

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; MULTI-MODAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; SWEPT SOURCE; TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENT;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; HUMAN; MOUSE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RABBIT; RAT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; RABBITS; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84922581132     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.19.7.071412     Document Type: Article

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