Aim To study the use of 3D polaroid glasses procured from cinema halls in detecting
birefringence substances and to study the red retardation plate function in them. Materials …

Utilization of polarized light for improved specificity and sensitivity in disease diagnosis is
occurring more often in fields of sensing, measurement, and medical diagnostics. This …

Significance For microscopic polarization imaging of tissue slices, two types of samples are
often prepared: one unstained tissue section for polarization imaging to avoid possible …

Alzheimer's disease (AD), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, is the most common form of
senile dementia. Five hundred thousand Canadians are living with dementia, a number …

Quantitative polarized light microscopy (qPLM) is a popular tool for the investigation of
birefringent architectures in biological tissues. Collagen, the most abundant protein in …

We demonstrate a homebuilt confocal microscope with∼ 60 nm axial resolution to visualize
the optical path length (OPL) of liquid crystals (LCs) inside a 2-domain alignment LC cell …

Although birefringence was discovered just three years after white light was separated into
diŽerent colors, polarimetry has lagged behind spectroscopy in characterizing diverse …

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This work presents the results of in vivo measurements of human corneal birefringence
properties using the one-way reflective polariscope, in which the same module is used to …

Purpose We incorporated a low cost cross-polarization kit for ophthalmic slit lamps to
enhance fundus examination. Light reflections off of handheld lenses used for viewing the …