Formalin fixation is a preparation method widely used in handling tissue specimens, such as
biopsies, specifically in optical studies such as microscopy. In this note, we examine how …

We present a quantitative study of depolarization in biological tissues and correlate it with
measured optical properties (reduced scattering and absorption coefficients). Polarized light …

We report the depolarization of light scattered by a variety of birefringent and nonbirefringent
tissues. We used Stokes polarimetry to investigate how scatterer structures in each tissue …

Myocardial infarction leads to structural remodeling of the myocardium, in particular to the
loss of cardiomyocytes due to necrosis and an increase in collagen with scar formation …

Myocardial infarction (MI), a cause of significant morbidity and mortality, is typically followed
by microstructural alterations where the necrotic myocardium is steadily replaced with a …

This tutorial-review introduces the fundamentals of polarized light interaction with biological
tissues and presents some of the recent key polarization optical methods that have made …

We demonstrate significant differences in the propagation of polarized light through
biological tissue compared with two common tissue phantoms. Depolarization of linearly …

Significance For microscopic polarization imaging of tissue slices, two types of samples are
often prepared: one unstained tissue section for polarization imaging to avoid possible …

Calibration, quantification, and standardization of the polarimetric instrumentation, as well as
interpretation and understanding of the obtained data, require the development and use of …

We have recently proposed an optical method for assessing heart structure that uses
polarized light measurement of birefringence as an indicator of tissue anisotropy. The highly …