Tissue polarimetry: Concepts, challenges, applications, and outlook

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Ghosh, Nirmalya ^a   Vitkin, I Alex ^b,c  

^a BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological and medical applications; Light transport; Monte Carlo simulations; Mueller matrix; Multiple scattering; Polar decomposition; Polarization; Stokes vector; Turbid polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAT; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878306368     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3652896     Document Type: Article

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