title: A high-accuracy universal polarimeter study of optical anisotropy and optical activity in laminated collagen membranes.
abstract: A novel method for fabricating anisotropic collagen membranes, which regulate the preferred orientation, is developed. The high-accuracy universal polarimeter (HAUP) method is used for simultaneous and quantitative evaluations of the optical anisotropy and optical activity. The evaluation of these optical quantities, enabled by the HAUP method, is beneficial to the field of tissue engineering.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering (TWIns), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. tasahi@waseda.jp.
authors.forename: Kenta
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harper-Lovelady
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Masahito
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamato
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Asahi
mesh_terms: D003094:Collagen; D008566:Membranes; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D023822:Tissue Engineering
chemical_list: D003094:Collagen