• DocumentCode
    732539
  • Title

    Differential Mueller-matrix formalism for polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

  • Author

    Villiger, Martin ; Lippok, Norman ; Bouma, Brett E.

  • Author_Institution
    Med. Sch., Wellman Center for Photomed., Harvard Univ., Boston, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The differential Mueller matrix offers useful insight into the polarization properties of biological tissue imaged with polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography. We present the theory and experimentally demonstrate local depolarization in addition to local retardation.
  • Keywords
    bio-optics; biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; light polarisation; optical rotation; optical tomography; biological tissue polarization properties; differential Mueller matrix formalism; local depolarization; local retardation; optical coherence tomography; polarization sensitive OCT; Coherence; Image reconstruction; Optical imaging; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7182972