Differential geometry of normalized Stokes vector trajectories in anisotropic media

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

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 679-690

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; TENDONS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; VECTORS;

BIATTENUANCE; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STOKES VECTOR;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33645392993     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.000679     Document Type: Article

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