Speckle Noise Reduction in Fourier Domain Polarization-Sensitive Coherence Tomography by Split-Spectrum

Yan Chen; Zhongliang Li; Nan Nan; Yang Bu; Xuan Wang; Liuhua Pan; Xiangzhao Wang

doi:10.3788/AOS201838.0811004

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