title: Three-dimensional polarization sensitive OCT imaging and interactive display of the human retina.
abstract: Polarization sensitive OCT has recently been shown to provide tissue specific contrast, enabling direct identification of retinal layers based on the intrinsic properties of their interaction with light. However, the capabilities of displaying and analyzing 3D datasets in scientific publications were rather limited. Within the framework of the Interactive Science Publishing project, we present new ways of displaying and analyzing 3D sets of various polarization parameters recorded in healthy and diseased human retinas. These datasets can be interactively explored by the reader. Furthermore, we provide data of the 3D distribution of backscattered Stokes vectors to allow the reader to develop and test their own data processing algorithms.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria .
authors.forename: Erich
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Götzinger
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pircher
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baumann
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ahlers
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Geitzenauer
authors.forename: Ursula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schmidt-Erfurth
authors.forename: Christoph K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Hitzenberger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D001284:Atrophy; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D020256:Choroidal Neovascularization / Q000473:pathology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009506:Nevus / Q000473:pathology; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D012160:Retina / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000473:pathology; D055213:Retinal Pigment Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data