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In vivo video-rate cellular-level full-field optical coherence tomography

Masahiro Akiba1, Kin Pui Chan

  • 1Yamagata Promotional Organization for Industrial Technology, 2-2-1, Matsuei, Yamagata 990-2473, Japan. makiba@topcon.com

Journal of Biomedical Optics
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