Balanced detection for low-noise precision polarimetric measurements of optically active, multiply scattering tissue phantoms

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 213-220

  Cote D ^a,b   Vitkin, I A ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glucose; Multiple scattering; Optical activity; Polarimetry; Stokes parameters; Turbid

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLARIMETERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; VECTORS;

MULTIPLE SCATTERING; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; STOKES PARAMETERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

GLUCOSE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 12144285932     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1629683     Document Type: Article

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