Full-field optical coherence tomography by achromatic phase shifting with a rotating polarizer

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1387-1392

  Watanabe, Yuuki ^a   Hayasaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Sato, Manabu ^a   Tanno, Naohiro ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

JONES CALCULUS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAGHY (OCT); POLARIZERS; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ONION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; ONIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 16444362693     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001387     Document Type: Article

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