학술논문

Polarization preservation gate-a tool for optical mammography
Document Type
Conference
Source
Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Lasers and electro-optics Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on. :20-21 1996
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Optical polarization
Mammography
Breast neoplasms
Breast tissue
Cancer
Optical propagation
Optical fiber polarization
Optical pulses
Optical imaging
Fiber lasers
Language
Abstract
Summary form only given. We demonstrate that light propagating through tissue, within a time gate, retains its polarization to a different degree depending on the type of tissue. This observation provides a way to improve optical imaging in turbid media. The polarization-preserving photons belong to the group of early arriving image-carrying photons.