Polarimetric analysis of the human cornea measured by polarization- sensitive optical coherence tomography

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Fanjul Vélez, Félix ^a   Pircher, Michael ^b   Baumann, Bernhard ^b   Götzinger, Erich ^b   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^b   Arce Diego, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corneal birefringence; Corneal polarimetry; Extended Jones matrix; Off axis optical propagation; Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

CORNEAL BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEAL POLARIMETRY; EXTENDED JONES MATRIX; OFF-AXIS; POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

CAPILLARY FLOW; COHERENT LIGHT; DIAGNOSIS; ELLIPSOMETRY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIREFRINGENCE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; EYE REFRACTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; STATISTICS;

BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77956541495     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3486540     Document Type: Article

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