Digital image processing techniques for speckle reduction, enhancement, and segmentation of optical coherence tomography (oct) images

Optical Coherence Tomography: Principles and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 305-329

  Rogowska, Jadwiga ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84973561638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012133570-0/50013-5     Document Type: Chapter

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