Structural image-assisted artifact reduction in optical coherence tomography angiography

Wenxin Zhang; Kangkang Wang; Hong Zhou; Jun Pan; Shiqi Tang; Ning Liu; Ping Xue; Jianfei Chen; Yuchong Lu; Zhanpeng Hong; Mingyu Yang

doi:10.3788/COL202523.081701

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 8, 081701(2025)

Structural image-assisted artifact reduction in optical coherence tomography angiography On the Cover

Wenxin Zhang^1,2、*, Kangkang Wang¹, Hong Zhou¹, Jun Pan¹, Shiqi Tang¹, Ning Liu^1、**, Ping Xue², Jianfei Chen¹, Yuchong Lu¹, Zhanpeng Hong¹, and Mingyu Yang¹

Author Affiliations

¹College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China

²State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China

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Wenxin Zhang, Kangkang Wang, Hong Zhou, Jun Pan, Shiqi Tang, Ning Liu, Ping Xue, Jianfei Chen, Yuchong Lu, Zhanpeng Hong, Mingyu Yang, "Structural image-assisted artifact reduction in optical coherence tomography angiography," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 081701 (2025)

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