Title :
Polarization preservation gate-a tool for optical mammography
Author :
Demos, Stavros G. ; Savage, H. ; Heerdt, A.S. ; Schantz, S. ; Alfano, Robert R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., City Univ. of New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We demonstrate that light propagating through tissue, within a time gate, retains its polarization to a different degree depending on the type of tissue. This observation provides a way to improve optical imaging in turbid media. The polarization-preserving photons belong to the group of early arriving image-carrying photons.
Keywords :
biomedical imaging; laser applications in medicine; light polarisation; optical images; turbidity; breast tumor; cancer breast tumor; early arriving image-carrying photons; laser pulses; optical imaging; optical mammography; polarization preservation gate; polarization-preserving photons; time gate; tissue; turbid media; Breast neoplasms; Breast tissue; Cancer; Fiber lasers; Mammography; Optical fiber polarization; Optical imaging; Optical polarization; Optical propagation; Optical pulses;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
