Correcting optical-axis calculation in polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2556-2559

  Fan, Chuanmao ^a   Yao, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical optical imaging; Image processing; Optical imaging; Polarization

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INCIDENT LIGHT; INTERFERENCE COMPONENTS; OPTICAL AXES; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RETARDATION; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE DETECTION; SIMPLE METHOD; TENDON TISSUES; TISSUE SAMPLES;

CAPILLARY FLOW; COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; POLARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; CHICKENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TENDONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77956896336     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2053927     Document Type: Article

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