Polarization effects in optical coherence tomography of various biological tissues

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1200-1204

  De Boer, Johannes F ^a   Srinivas, Shyam M ^a   Park, B Hyle ^a,c,d   Pham, Tuan H ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a   Milner, Thomas E ^b   Nelson, J Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MIRRORS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 0033351249     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.796347     Document Type: Article

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