Brett E. Bouma

TL;DR: It is shown that despeckled esophageal volumes exhibit improved image quality and detail, even in the presence of significant motion artifacts, and an implementation using a two-dimensional search window and a three-dimensional window with improved performance in motion-free volumes is presented.

TL;DR: The results indicate that different atherosclerotic plaque types may be distinguished by analyzing temporal and spatial speckle pattern fluctuations.

TL;DR: This work presents a derivation of the differential Mueller matrix from the canonical form of Type I Mueller matrices without making use of the exponential generators of uniform media, and demonstrates how to practically obtain this parameterization numerically using an eigenvalue decomposition.

TL;DR: Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography has significant potential for clinical impact, as the ability to differentiate tumor from fibrosis could be used to guide intraprocedural tissue sampling in vivo, or for rapid biopsy adequacy assessment ex vivo, to increase diagnostic tumor yield essential for patient care and research.

TL;DR: Intravascular polarimetry provides quantitative metrics that help characterize coronary arterials tissues and may offer refined insight into coronary arterial atherosclerotic lesions in patients.