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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8306-0
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338656
