Mueller polarimetric imaging system with liquid crystals

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2824-2832

  Laude Boulesteix, Blandine ^a   De Martino, Antonello ^a   Drévillon, Bernard ^a   Schwartz, Laurent ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COLLAGEN; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTOELASTICITY; POLARIMETERS; QUARTZ;

LIQUID-CRYSTAL MODULATORS; PHOTOELASTIC MODULATORS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

COLLAGEN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 2542490228     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002824     Document Type: Article

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