Polarization-resolved Stokes-Mueller imaging: a review of technology and applications

S KU, KK Mahato, N Mazumder - Lasers in medical science, 2019 - Springer
Polarization microscopy, a powerful optical tool to study anisotropic properties of
biomolecules, provides better microstructural information of a sample as compared with …

Auto-detection of cervical collagen and elastin in Mueller matrix polarimetry microscopic images using K-NN and semantic segmentation classification

C Roa, VN Du Le, M Mahendroo… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We propose an approach for discriminating fibrillar collagen fibers from elastic fibers in the
mouse cervix in Mueller matrix microscopy using convolutional neural networks (CNN) and …

[HTML][HTML] Complementary analysis of Mueller-matrix images of optically anisotropic highly scattering biological tissues

M Borovkova, M Peyvasteh, O Dubolazov… - Journal of the European …, 2018 - Springer
Background Using optical techniques for tissue diagnostics (so-called 'optical biopsy') has
been a subject of extensive research for many years. Various groups have been exploring …

[HTML][HTML] Are indices of polarimetric purity excellent metrics for object identification in scattering media?

X Li, L Zhang, P Qi, Z Zhu, J Xu, T Liu, J Zhai, H Hu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polarization characteristics are significantly crucial for tasks in various fields, including the
remote sensing of oceans and atmosphere, as well as the polarization LIDAR and …

Tissue polarimetry

A Vitkin, N Ghosh, A Martino - Photonics: Biomedical Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter explains the polarized light fundamentals and mathematical formulations of
polarized light and its propagation in biological tissues. It introduces the Stokes Mueller …

Polarization fingerprint for microalgae classification

J Li, J Wei, H Liu, J Wan, T Huang, H Wang… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microalgae classification is important for aquatic environment monitoring, but it is difficult in
some in-situ cases. The Mueller matrix is known to encode the physical properties including …

Ex vivo Mueller polarimetric imaging of the uterine cervix: a first statistical evaluation

J Rehbinder, H Haddad, S Deby, B Teig… - … of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Early detection through screening plays a major role in reducing the impact of cervical
cancer on patients. When detected before the invasive stage, precancerous lesions can be …

Determination of collagen fiber orientation in histological slides using Mueller microscopy and validation by second harmonic generation imaging

S Bancelin, A Nazac, BH Ibrahim, P Dokládal… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We studied the azimuthal orientations of collagen fibers in histological slides of uterine
cervical tissue by two different microscopy techniques, namely Mueller polarimetry (MP) and …

[HTML][HTML] Müller matrix polarimetry for pancreatic tissue characterization

P Sampaio, M Lopez-Antuña, F Storni, J Wicht… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Polarimetry is an optical characterization technique capable of analyzing the polarization
state of light reflected by materials and biological samples. In this study, we investigate the …

Stereo Jones matrix holography with longitudinal polarization transformation

R Zhao, Q Wei, Y Li, X Li, G Geng, X Li… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces have exhibited powerful abilities for manipulating multiple fundamental
properties of light including amplitude, phase, polarization, and so on. However, these …