Can OCT be sensitive to nanoscale structural alterations in biological tissue?

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 9043-9059

  Yi, Ji ^a   Radosevich, Andrew J ^a   Rogers, Jeremy D ^a   Norris, Sam C P ^a   Capoǧlu, Ilker R ^a   Taflove, Allen ^b   Backman, Vadim ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; GEOMETRICAL FEATURES; NANOMETER LENGTH SCALE; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS;

TISSUE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84875968598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.009043     Document Type: Article

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