Optical imaging based on time-resolved Stokes vectors in filamentous tissues

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 750-754

  Sun, Chia Wei ^a   Yang, Chih Chung ^a   Kiang, Yean Woei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SCANNING; TISSUE; VECTORS;

DEGREE OF POLARIZATION (DOP);

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; CHICKEN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORAX;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHICKENS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OPTICS; THORAX;

EID: 0037289777     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000750     Document Type: Article

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