"Birefringence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The property of nonisotropic media, such as crystals, whereby a single incident beam of light traverses the medium as two beams, each plane-polarized, the planes being at right angles to each other. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
Concept/Terms
Birefringence- Birefringence
- Birefringences
- Birefraction
- Birefractions
- Double Refraction
- Double Refractions
- Refraction, Double
- Refractions, Double
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Birefringence" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Birefringence" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Birefringence" by people in Profiles.
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Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography imaging of the anterior mouse eye. J Biomed Opt. 2018 08; 23(8):1-12.
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Repeatability Assessment of Intravascular Polarimetry in Patients. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2018 07; 37(7):1618-1625.
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Birefringence microscopy platform for assessing airway smooth muscle structure and function in vivo. Sci Transl Med. 2016 10 05; 8(359):359ra131.
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Deep tissue volume imaging of birefringence through fibre-optic needle probes for the delineation of breast tumour. Sci Rep. 2016 07 01; 6:28771.
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Quantifying three-dimensional optic axis using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography. J Biomed Opt. 2016 07 01; 21(7):70501.
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Polarization sensitive optical coherence microscopy for brain imaging. Opt Lett. 2016 May 15; 41(10):2213-6.
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First-in-man assessment of plaque rupture by polarization-sensitive optical frequency domain imaging in vivo. Eur Heart J. 2016 06 21; 37(24):1932.
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Multi-modal optical imaging characterization of atherosclerotic plaques. J Biophotonics. 2016 10; 9(10):1009-1020.
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Polarized light imaging in biomedicine: emerging Mueller matrix methodologies for bulk tissue assessment. J Biomed Opt. 2015 Jun; 20(6):61104.
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Utility of birefringent crystal identification by polarized light microscopy in distinguishing thyroid from parathyroid tissue on intraoperative frozen sections. Am J Surg Pathol. 2014 Sep; 38(9):1212-9.