Two-dimensional birefringence imaging in biological tissue by polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 934-936

  De Boer, Johannes F ^a,b   Milner, Thomas E ^b   Van Gemert, Martin J C ^a,b   Nelson, J Stuart ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000063297     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.000934     Document Type: Article

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