Visualization of phase retardation of deep posterior eye by polarization-sensitive swept-source optical coherence tomography with 1-μm probe

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12385-12396

  Yamanari, Masahiro ^a   Lim, Yiheng ^a   Makita, Shuichi ^a   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CAPILLARY FLOW; POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION METHOD; PHASE RETARDATION IMAGES; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; SYSTEM SENSITIVITY; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHOROID; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; RETINA; SCLERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CALIBRATION; CHOROID; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RETINA; SCLERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 67749091054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012385     Document Type: Article

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