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9 December 2021 Polarization-sensitive imaging of diseased and healthy lungs with histological validation
Joy Willemse, Reinier R. Wener, Fabio Feroldi, Margherita Vaselli, Johanna M. Kwakkel- van Erp, Eduard A. van de Graaf, Erik Thunnissen, Johannes F. de Boer
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Abstract
Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography has been used to image two healthy and four diseased lungs ex vivo together with histology. Differences between lungs were found in alveoli size and airway smooth muscle thickness.
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Joy Willemse, Reinier R. Wener, Fabio Feroldi, Margherita Vaselli, Johanna M. Kwakkel- van Erp, Eduard A. van de Graaf, Erik Thunnissen, and Johannes F. de Boer "Polarization-sensitive imaging of diseased and healthy lungs with histological validation", Proc. SPIE 11924, Optical Coherence Imaging Techniques and Imaging in Scattering Media IV, 119240U (9 December 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2616061
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KEYWORDS
Lung

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Image segmentation

Tissue optics

Birefringence

Polarization

Signal attenuation

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