Detection of multiple scattering in optical coherence tomography using the spatial distribution of Stokes vectors

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 18033-18049

  Adie, Steven G ^a,b   Hillman, Timothy R ^a   Sampson, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VECTORS;

MICROSPHERE SUSPENSIONS; STOKES VECTORS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 37549020771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.018033     Document Type: Article

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