Title :
Second harmonic optical coherence tomography
Author :
Jiang, Yi ; Tomov, Ivan ; Wang, Yimin ; Zhongping Chen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomedical Eng., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
Second harmonic optical coherence tomography, which uses coherence gating of second-order nonlinear optical response of biological tissues for imaging, is described and demonstrated.
Keywords :
biological tissues; medical image processing; optical harmonic generation; optical tomography; biological tissues; coherence gating; second harmonic optical coherence tomography; second-order nonlinear optical response; Coherence; Image resolution; Mirrors; Optical beam splitting; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Power harmonic filters; Tendons; Tomography; Second harmonic generation; optical coherence tomography; second harmonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1404481
