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This chapter reviews wide-field coherence-gated imaging techniques for application through turbid media such as biological tissue, beginning with different approaches to coherence-gated imaging and then focusing on low coherence photorefractive holography.

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French, P.M.W. (2004). Low Coherence Holography. In: Tuchin, V.V. (eds) Handbook of Coherent Domain Optical Methods. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29989-0_6

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