title: An in vivo study of turbidity suppression by optical phase conjugation (TSOPC) on rabbit ear.
abstract: We present a holography-based in vivo optical phase conjugation experiment performed on a living rabbit ear. The motion of live tissues caused the phase conjugate signal to decay with a consistent decay time of less than two seconds. We monitor the signal decay time variation after the ear is excised to postulate different mechanisms that cause the signal decay. The experimental findings address the minimum speed limit of a broad range of optical time reversal experiments for in vivo applications on tissues.
authors.affiliation: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. mcui@caltech.edu
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Emily J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: McDowell
authors.forename: Changhuei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004423:Ear / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D009391:Nephelometry and Turbidimetry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011817:Rabbits; D012031:Refractometry / Q000379:methods*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation