Polarization-gated imaging in tissue phantoms: Effect of size distribution

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 6099-6104

  Shukla, Prashant ^a   Pradhan, Asima ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIXTURES; POLYDISPERSITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLUTIONS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; DIFFERENT SIZES; EFFECT OF SIZES; GATED IMAGING; MONO-DISPERSE; OPTICAL THICKNESS; POLYDISPERSES; TISSUE PHANTOM;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MICROSPHERES; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 73349088989     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006099     Document Type: Article

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