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Published November 2007 | Published
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Evaluation of the magneto-optical effect in biological tissue models using optical coherence tomography

Abstract

For the first time to our knowledge, an experimental evaluation of the Faraday effect–induced polarization rotation in a biological tissue phantom is reported. The rotation of the polarization plane produced in the optical beam propagating through an Intralipid solution was evaluated using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT), and the experimental results closely matched the theoretical values. The angle of rotation is proportional to the traversed path length along the magnetic field and can potentially be used to estimate the actual penetration depth.

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© 2007 SPIE. Paper 07162LR received May 5, 2007; revised manuscript received Aug. 9, 2007; accepted for publication Sep. 5, 2007; published online Dec. 11, 2007. This project has been sponsored in part by the Fulbright Commission through a Spanish Fulbright/MEC (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia) scholarship, as well as by the National Institutes of Health Grant No. R01 CA092415 and the Spanish MEC project TCE2006-06548/TCM.

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