Multiple-channel spectrally encoded imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14745-14751

  Abramov, Avraham ^a   Minai, Limor ^a   Yelin, Dvir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INCOHERENT WHITE LIGHT; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; NEW APPROACHES; SPECTRAL ENCODING; SUBMILLIMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ENDOSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 85047686235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014745     Document Type: Article

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