Second harmonic generation imaging of collagen fibrils in cornea and sciera

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5791-5797

  Han, Meng ^a,b   Giese, Günter ^c   Bille, Josef F ^c  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

COLLAGEN FIBRILS; CORNEA; POLYCRYSTALLINE LATTICE; SCLERA;

COLLAGEN;

EID: 23744500429     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005791     Document Type: Article

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