Rotating orthogonal polarization imaging for tissue imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6858, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Morgan, Stephen P ^a   Zhu, Qun ^a   Stockford, Ian M ^a   Crowe, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Orthogonal; Polarization; Scattering

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; HEALTH; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; ROTATION; TECHNOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AND DETECTION; FREE FROM SURFACE; MEAN FREE PATHS (MFP); MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE; REGENERATIVE MEDICINES; SCATTERING MEDIUM; SINGLE POLARIZATION; TISSUE IMAGING; TISSUE PHANTOMS;

TISSUE;

EID: 45549087586     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.762318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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