Full-range polarization-sensitive swept-source optical coherence tomography by simultaneous transversal and spectral modulation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13964-13980

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODULATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLARIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

1064 NM; A-CENTER; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; COMPLEX CONJUGATES; FIBROUS TISSUE; IN-VIVO; LAMINA CRIBROSA; MEASUREMENT RANGE; MEASUREMENT SPEED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE FLUCTUATION; POLARIZATION MODULATION; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL IMAGING; RETINAL NERVE FIBER; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL MODULATION; STATES OF POLARIZATIONS; SWEPT LASERS; SWEPT SOURCE; TRANSVERSAL SCANNING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIREFRINGENCE; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SCLERA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SCLERA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77953846740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013964     Document Type: Article

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