Modeling optical behavior of birefringent biological tissues for evaluation of quantitative polarized light microscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Van Turnhout, Mark C ^a   Kranenbarg, Sander ^a   Van Leeuwen, Johan L ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Collagen anisotropy; Collagen density; Collagen network; Mathematical modeling; Polarized light microscopy (PLM)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIREFRINGENT MATERIALS; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN FIBER ORIENTATION; HISTOLOGICAL SECTION; LINEAR OPTICAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MUELLER MATRIX; OPTICAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPY (PLM); TISSUE FUNCTION;

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CARTILAGE; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAMMALS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

COLLAGEN;

MAMMALIA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENDON;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENDONS;

EID: 74049158684     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3241986     Document Type: Article

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