Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography of the rabbit eye

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1159-1167

  Ducros, Mathieu G ^a,c,d,e   De Boer, Johannes F ^b,f,g   Huang, Huai En ^b   Chao, Lawrence C ^b   Chen, Zhongping ^b   Nelson, J Stuart ^b   Milner, Thomas E ^a   Rylander III, H Grady ^a,d,h,i,j,k  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

ⁱ Biomedical Engineering Program   (United States)

^j Health Sicence Center ^*  (United States)

^k American Academy of Ophthalmology   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENT LAYER; CORNEA; GLAUCOMA; LIGHT BACKREFLECTION; PHASE RETARDATION; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA; STOKES PARAMETERS;

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033310108     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.796342     Document Type: Article

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