Generalized Jones matrix optical coherence tomography: Performance and local birefringence imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 854-876

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POLARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

BACKGROUND NOISE; BACKSCATTERED LIGHT; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIREFRINGENCE IMAGING; IN-VIVO; INPUT POLARIZATION; JONES MATRIX; MATRIX; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE RETARDATION; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFRACTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 75249086019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000854     Document Type: Article

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