Intensity profiles of linearly polarized light backscattered from skin and tissue-like phantoms

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Sviridov, Alexander ^a,b   Chernomordik, Victor ^a   Hassan, Moinuddin ^a   Russo, Angelo ^c   Eidsath, Alec ^d   Smith, Paul ^d   Gandjbakhche, Amir H ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen fiber orientation; Equi intensity profiles of light; Fibrosis; Light propagation in tissue; Optical diagnosis

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BONE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; MOUSE; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SKIN; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BONE AND BONES; COLLAGEN; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN;

ANISOTROPY; BACKSCATTERING; COLLAGEN; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFLECTOMETERS; TISSUE;

COLLAGEN FIBER ORIENTATION; EQUI-INTENSITY PROFILES-OF-LIGHT; FIBROSIS; LIGHT PROPAGATION-IN-TISSUE; OPTICAL DIAGNOSIS;

SKIN;

EID: 23044460049     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1854677     Document Type: Article

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