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PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
卷 49, 期 7, 页码 1295-1306出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/7/016
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Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) is used to measure the birefringence properties of bovine intervertebral disc and equine flexor tendon. For equine tendon the birefringence Deltan is (6.0 +/- 0.2) x 10(-3) at a wavelength of 1.3 mum. This is somewhat larger than the values reported for bovine tendon. The surface region of the annulus fibrosus of a freshly excised intact bovine intervertebral disc displays an identical value of birefringence, Deltan = (6.0 +/- 0.6) x 10(-3) at 1.3 mum. The nucleus pulposus does not display birefringence, the measured apparent value of Deltan = (0.39 +/- 0.01) x 10(-3) being indistinguishable from the effects of depolarization due to multiple scattering. A clear difference is found between the depth-resolved retardance of equine tendon and that of bovine intervertebral disc. This apparently relates to the lamellar structure of the latter tissue, in which the collagen fibre orientation alternates between successive lamellae. A semi-empirical model based on Jones calculus shows that the measurements are in reasonable agreement with previous optical and x-ray data. These results imply that PS-OCT could be a useful tool to study collagen organization within the intervertebral disc in vitro and possibly in vivo and its variation with applied load and disease.
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