Adapted polarization state contrast image

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14199-14210

  Richert, Michael ^a   Orlik, Xavier ^a   De Martino, Antonello ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION;

BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; COHERENT IMAGING; CONTRAST PARAMETER; DETECTION METHODS; GENERAL METHOD; POLAR DECOMPOSITIONS; POLARIZATION STATE; RETARDANCE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION;

EID: 68349135258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014199     Document Type: Article

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