Birefringence imaging of human skin by polarization-sensitive spectral interferometric optical coherence tomography.
We have developed a spectral interferometric optical coherence tomography (OCT) system with polarization sensitivity that is able to measure a two-dimensional tomographic image by means of one-dimensional mechanical scanning. Our system, which has an axial resolution of 32 mum , calculates the distribution of each element of the Müller matrix of a measured object from 16 OCT images. The OCT system successfully reveals the birefringent nature of human skin tissue.
Yasuno
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Makita
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Sutoh
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Itoh
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Yatagai
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