"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)
| Descriptor ID |
D001718
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.590.080
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| Concept/Terms |
Birefringence- Birefringence
- Birefringences
- Birefraction
- Birefractions
- Double Refraction
- Double Refractions
- Refraction, Double
- Refractions, Double
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Birefringence" by people in Profiles.
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Thickness, phase retardation, birefringence, and reflectance of the retinal nerve fiber layer in normal and glaucomatous non-human primates. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2012 Jul 01; 53(8):4380-95.
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Role of oligomers in the amyloidogenesis of primary cutaneous amyloidosis. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2011 Nov; 65(5):1023-31.
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Birefringence measurement of the retinal nerve fiber layer by swept source polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography. Opt Express. 2011 May 23; 19(11):10252-68.
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In vivo burn imaging using Mueller optical coherence tomography. Opt Express. 2008 Jul 07; 16(14):10279-84.
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Role of the Caenorhabditis elegans multidrug resistance gene, mrp-4, in gut granule differentiation. Genetics. 2007 Nov; 177(3):1569-82.
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Fibre orientation contrast for depth-resolved identification of structural interfaces in birefringent tissue. Phys Med Biol. 2006 Aug 07; 51(15):3759-67.
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Birefringence of the primate retinal nerve fiber layer. Exp Eye Res. 2005 Jul; 81(1):81-9.
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High-sensitivity determination of birefringence in turbid media with enhanced polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2005 Mar; 22(3):552-60.
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High-resolution optical coherence tomographic imaging of osteoarthritic cartilage during open knee surgery. Arthritis Res Ther. 2005; 7(2):R318-23.
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Polarization-maintaining fiber-based optical low-coherence reflectometer for characterization and ranging of birefringence. Opt Lett. 2003 Oct 01; 28(19):1775-7.