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Principles of Optical Coherence Tomography

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Optical coherence is an optical property describing a degree of correlation between phases of optical waves.

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Zhang, K., Kang, J.U. (2013). Principles of Optical Coherence Tomography. In: Kang, J. (eds) Fiber Optic Sensing and Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7482-1_6

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