Polarization contrast imaging of biological tissues by polarization- sensitive Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1142-1147

  Makita, Shuichi ^a   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^a   Endo, Takashi ^a   Itoh, Masahide ^a   Yatagai, Toyohiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHY;

CCD CAMERA; JONES MATRIX IMAGING; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION;

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENDON;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TENDONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33645517715     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001142     Document Type: Article

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