Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images of human skin by a spatial diversity method

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  Jørgensen, Thomas M ^a   Thrane, Lars ^a   Mogensen, Mette ^b   Pedersen, Finn ^a   Andersen, Peter E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human skin; Optical coherence tomography; Spatial compounding; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROBES; SPECKLE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGULAR COMPOUNDING; COMPOUNDING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; HUMAN SKIN; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING; SPATIAL DIVERSITY METHODS; SPATIAL DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85085779050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/ecbo.2007.6627_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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