Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography of melanin provides intrinsic contrast based on depolarization

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1670-1683

  Baumann, Bernhard ^a   Baumann, Stefan O ^b   Konegger, Thomas ^c   Pircher, Michael ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Schlanitz, Ferdinand ^d   Schütze, Christopher ^d   Sattmann, Harald ^a   Litschauer, Marco ^b   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^d   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

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

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; GRANULATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; TISSUE;

AXIS ORIENTATION; BACKSCATTERED LIGHT; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; DEPTH-RESOLVED; FUNCTIONAL EXTENSION; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION SCRAMBLING; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; STOKES VECTOR;

DEPOLARIZATION;

EID: 84863950234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.001670     Document Type: Article

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