Imaging thermally damaged tissue by polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 212-218

  De Boer, Johannes F ^a   Srinivas, Shyam M ^a   Malekafzali, Arash ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a   Nelson, J Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; COLLAGEN; FIBER OPTICS; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; POLARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); OPTICAL MARKER; SIGNAL FRINGES; THERMAL DAMAGE;

TISSUE;

EID: 0000439050     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000212     Document Type: Article

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