Polarization-sensitive optical frequency domain imaging based on unpolarized light

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 552-561

  Kim, Ki Hean ^a   Park, B Hyle ^b   Tu, Yupeng ^c   Hasan, Tayyaba ^c   Lee, Byunghak ^a   Li, Jianan ^d   De Boer, Johannes F ^c,d  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CAPILLARY FLOW; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

3-D IMAGE; ANIMAL MODEL; CANCER CELLS; CHICKEN MUSCLES; DEPTH-RESOLVED; EIGENVECTORS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLEXING; HAMSTER CHEEK POUCH MODEL; HUMAN SKIN; IN-VIVO; JONES MATRIX; MOUSE MODELS; NORMAL TISSUE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN IMAGING; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; POINCARE; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION STATE; SWEPT SOURCE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; UNPOLARIZED LIGHT;

POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION;

EID: 78751513595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000552     Document Type: Article

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