optical coherence tomography

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optical coherence tomography [¦äp·tə·kəl kō¦hir·əns tə′mäg·rə·fē]

(optics)

A noninvasive technique for imaging subsurface tissue structure with micrometer-scale resolution, which is based on a broadband light source and a fiber-optic Michelson interferometer.

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