Title :
Polarization sensitive OCT with needle probes
Author :
Martin Villiger;Dirk Lorenser;Bryden C. Quirk;Rodney W. Kirk;Norman Lippok;Brett E. Bouma;Robert A. McLaughlin;David D. Sampson
Author_Institution :
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Boston, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate polarization sensitive OCT using miniaturized needle probes. Employing the Mueller-formalism, we reconstruct tissue birefringence and retrieve the depolarization index of ex vivo tissue samples, providing contrast complementary to the structural intensity signal.
Keywords :
"Biomedical optical imaging","Optical polarization","Yttrium"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323482
