Three dimensional polarization sensitive OCT of human skin in vivo

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3236-3244

  Pircher, Michael ^a   Goetzinger, Erich ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; SCANNING; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AXIS ORIENTATION; FACE IMAGES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); RETARDATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 4644246854     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003236     Document Type: Article

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