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
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