Single camera based spectral domain polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1054-1063

  Baumann, Bernhard ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; OCULAR TISSUES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 33846893237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001054     Document Type: Article

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