Monte-Carlo-based phase retardation estimator for polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 16330-16345

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; IN-PHASE; IN-VITRO; MEAN ESTIMATORS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NOISE PROPERTIES; PHASE RETARDATION; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; TRANSFORM FUNCTION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 80051734148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.016330     Document Type: Article

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