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Needle Probes in Optical Coherence Tomography

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The development and deployment of OCT needle-probe technologies are reviewed. Their use through several different clinical applications, including demarcation of breast cancer tumor margins and lung imaging, is demonstrated.

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McLaughlin, R.A., Lorenser, D., Sampson, D.D. (2013). Needle Probes in Optical Coherence Tomography. In: Tuchin, V. (eds) Handbook of Coherent-Domain Optical Methods. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5176-1_25

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