Depolarized light microscopy (DLM) images of occlusal caries lesions

Abstract

This dataset contains the images of 24 selected thin sections examined with depolarized light microscopy. Depolarized light microscopy is an advancement of conventional polarized light microscopy evaluating the degree of polarization (DOP) within thin sections. To generate the data, the thin sections were examined with the Leica DMRB polarizing microscope (Leica Microsystems GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany) with complementary implementation of a FLIR polarization camera (FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions Inc., Ludwigsburg, Germany). The pixel size of the processed images is 3.93 µm x 3.93 µm. Since multiple areas of interests were examined within some thin sections, 29 data sets are available. For each data set, the raw data as well as a processed DLM image are available. Note that the processed DLM images must be flipped horizontally once in order to compare them with further optical imaging techniques from the same perspective.