Practical obstacles and their mitigation strategies in compressional optical coherence elastography of biological tissues

Vladimir Y. Zaitsev; Alexandr L. Matveyev; Lev A. Matveev; Ekaterina V. Gubarkova; Alexandr A. Sovetsky; Marina A. Sirotkina; Grigory V. Gelikonov; Elena V. Zagaynova; Natalia D. Gladkova; Alex Vitkin

doi:10.1142/s1793545817420068

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