In this paper, we demonstrate polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) based tissue dynamics imaging methods to investigate the activity of mouse livers. The methods include logarithmic intensity variance (LIV), temporal variance of birefringence, temporal degree-of-polarization-uniformity. Portal veins appeared as hypo-scattering structure in static OCT intensity. High dynamics appearance around the portal veins in all the dynamics contrasts was found just after the dissection of mouse liver. Although, high activity around the vessels reduced by time, a bright and high dynamics spot appeared in the vessel in LIV cross-sectional and en face image after 28-hours of the dissection.
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