In vivo evaluation of human skin anisotropy by polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2623-2631

  Sakai, Shingo ^a   Yamanari, Masahiro ^b   Lim, Yiheng ^b   Nakagawa, Noriaki ^a   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a KANEBO LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE;

ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; COLLAGEN STRUCTURE; HUMAN SKIN; IN-VIVO; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

EID: 84860544543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.002623     Document Type: Article

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