Speckle in optical coherence tomography

Advanced Biophotonics: Tissue Optical Sectioning

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 211-277

  Curatolo, Andrea ^a   Kennedy, Brendan F ^a   Sampson, David D ^a   Hillman, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography; Speckle

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; MULTIPLY SCATTERED LIGHT; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DOMAINS; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TISSUE SIMULATING PHANTOMS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 84993972325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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