Diattenuation and polarization preservation of retinal nerve fiber layer reflectance

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 28, 2003, Pages 5737-5743

  Huang, Xiang Run ^a   Knighton, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NEUROLOGY; POLARIMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

POLARIZATION PRESERVATION;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; NERVE FIBER; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAT; RETINA; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE FIBERS; RATS; RETINA; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0141959616     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005737     Document Type: Article

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