• DocumentCode
    3488129
  • Title

    Contrast enhancement methods for optical coherence tomography

  • Author

    Boppart, Stephen A. ; Marks, Daniel L. ; Oldenburg, Amy L. ; Vinegoni, Claudio ; Bredfeldt, Jeremy S. ; Xu, Chenyang ; Gunther, Jillian R. ; Toublan, Farah Jean-Jacques ; Suslick, Kenneth S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    28-30 June 2004
  • Abstract
    Contrast in optical coherence tomography (OCT) images is often limited, particularly when pathological tissue is morphologically or optically similar to normal tissue. We present novel contrast enhancing methods designed to selectively identify tissues of interest.
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; image enhancement; optical images; optical tomography; contrast enhancement method; optical coherence tomography image; pathological tissue; Biomedical optical imaging; Fluorescence; Magnetosphere; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Particle scattering; Proteins; Tomography; Ultrasonic imaging;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings
  • ISSN
    1099-4742
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8306-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338656
  • Filename
    1338656