Improved scanning laser fundus imaging using polarimetry

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1337-1348

  Bueno, Juan M ^a   Hunter, Jennifer J ^b,c   Cookson, Christopher J ^b   Kisilak, Marsha L ^b   Campbell, Melanie C W ^b  

^a LABORATORIO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; LASER APPLICATIONS; POLARIMETERS; VISION; VISUALIZATION;

CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCANNING LASER FUNDUS IMAGING;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINOSCOPE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINOSCOPES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249727247     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.001337     Document Type: Article

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