Observations of birefringence in tissues from optic-fibre-based optical coherence tomography

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-46

  Yang, Ying ^a   Wu, Liu ^b   Feng, Yinqi ^a,b   Wang, Ruikang K ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Optical coherence tomography; Polarization sensitive; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; FIBER OPTICS; TENDONS;

PIG TENDONS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0346668157     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/14/1/306     Document Type: Article

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