Time resolved degree of polarization for human breast tissue

Optics Communications

Volumn 124, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 439-442

  Demos, S G ^a   Savage, H ^b   Heerdt, Alexandra S ^b   Schantz, S ^b   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Early light; Polarization; Scattering media; Tissues

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TISSUE;

HUMAN BREAST TISSUE; OPTICAL MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION PRESERVATION EFFECTS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 0030107945     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(95)00693-1     Document Type: Article

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