Stokes polarimetry imaging of rat tail tissue in a turbid medium: Degree of linear polarization image maps using incident linearly polarized light

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Wu, Paul J ^a   Walsh Jr , Joseph T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Dichroism; Near infrared; Tendon

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; TENDONS;

DICHROISM; NEAR INFRARED; RAT TAIL TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RAT; REFRACTOMETRY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TAIL;

ANIMALS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFRACTOMETRY; TAIL;

EID: 33744484060     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2162851     Document Type: Article

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