Fibre orientation contrast for depth-resolved identification of structural interfaces in birefringent tissue

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3759-3767

  Kemp, Nate J ^a   Park, Jesung ^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

ANISOTROPY; BACKSCATTERING; BIREFRINGENCE; CARTILAGE; COLLAGEN; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POLARIMETERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIREFRINGENT TISSUE; FIBRE ORIENTATION; PORCINE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CARTILAGE SPECIMEN; STRUCTURAL INTERFACES;

TISSUE;

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BIREFRINGENCE; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; CARTILAGE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33746488766     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/15/011     Document Type: Article

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