International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 752340, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/752340
Research Article

Spectroscopic OCT by Grating-Based Temporal Correlation Coupled to Optical Spectral Analysis

L. Froehly,1 M. Ouadour,1 L. Furfaro,1 P. Sandoz,1 P. Leproux,2 G. Huss,2 and V. Couderc2

1Département d'Optique P.M. Duffieux, Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR 6174 CNRS, Université de Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
2Institut de Recherche (XLIM), UMR 6172 CNRS, 123 avenue Albert Thomas, Limoges Cedex 87060, France

Received 27 September 2007; Accepted 17 December 2007

Academic Editor: Min Gu

Copyright © 2007 L. Froehly et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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