High-sensitivity determination of birefringence in turbid media with enhanced polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 552-560

  Kemp, Nate J ^a   Park, Jesung ^a   Zaatari, Haitham N ^a   Rylander, H Grady ^a   Milner, Thomas E ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FILMS; POLARIMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; VECTORS;

BIREFRINGENT FILM; ENHANCED POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIMETRIC SIGNAL-TO-NOISE-RATIO; STOKES VECTORS;

BIREFRINGENCE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; FEMALE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OPTIC DISK; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 15044363141     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.000552     Document Type: Article

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