Modeling human corneal polarization properties and comparison with PS-OCT measurements

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7163, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fanjul Vélez, Félix ^a,b   Pircher, Michael ^b   Baumann, Bernhard ^b   Götzinger, Erich ^b   Arce Diego, José Luis ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corneal disorders; Corneal modeling; Corneal polarization properties; Corneal structure; PS OCT

Indexed keywords

CORNEAL DISORDERS; CORNEAL MODELING; CORNEAL POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; CORNEAL STRUCTURE; PS-OCT;

COHERENT LIGHT; MODEL STRUCTURES; POLARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

EID: 65549090520     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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