Corneal birefringence compensation for polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography of the human retina

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

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

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Cornea compensation; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Polarization; Retina

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORNEA; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

BACKSCATTERING; BIREFRINGENCE; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

CORNEA COMPENSATION; HUMAN RETINA;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35948943515     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2771560     Document Type: Article

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