Imaging of biomedical turbid tissue using catheter swept-source optical coherence tomography

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Imaging of biomedical turbid tissue using catheter swept-source

optical coherence tomography

Mao, Youxin; Flueraru, Costel; Chang, Shoude; Popescu, Dan P.; Sowa,

Michael G.

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