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Figure 13. En face polarization sensitive optical-coherence tomography images of an extracted human tooth: linear output images of the V and H channels (top), net reflectivity and birefringence retardation images (bottom). The size of each image was 2 mm x 2 mm. The images were acquired from a depth corresponding to a 300 µm optical path in dental tissue and their thickness is less than 15 µm.