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Optical Coherence Tomography

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) (Huang et al. Science 254(5035): 1178–1181, 1991; Fercher et al. Rep Prog Phys 66:239–303, 2003; Drexler and Fujimoto Prog Retin Eye Res 27(1):45–88, 2008) is a well-established tool for high-resolution cross-sectional imaging of human ocular structures. Despite its great success in improving ocular diagnostic imaging, conventional OCT cannot directly differentiate between different tissues. However, polarization-sensitive (PS) OCT is able to generate tissue-specific contrast that can be further used to segment ocular structures and to obtain quantitative information.

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The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the Austrian Science Fund (FWF grants P16776-N02 and P19624-B02) and EU-Project FUN OCT (FP7 HEALTH, Contract No. 201880) for the financial support.

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