Polarization-sensitive spectral-domain optical coherence tomography using a single line scan camera

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2421-2431

  Cense, Barry ^a,b   Mujat, Mircea ^a   Chen, Teresa C ^c   Park, B Hyle ^a   De Boer, Johannes F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONCENTRIC CIRCULAR SCANS; HUMAN RETINA; WOLLASTON PRISM;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33847725470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002421     Document Type: Article

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