Imaging of human aortic atherosclerotic plaques by polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 1222-1224

  Kuo, W C ^a   Shyu, J J ^a   Chou, N K ^b   Lai, C M ^c   Huang, H C ^d   Chou, C ^d   Jan, G J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Birefringence; Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; LASER BEAMS; LASER DAMAGE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; OPTICAL IMAGING; POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (PS-OCT); THERMAL DAMAGE;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11144267823     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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