Visualization of white matter fiber tracts of brain tissue sections with wide-field imaging Mueller polarimetry

P Schucht, HR Lee, HM Mezouar… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identification of white matter fiber tracts of the brain is crucial for delineating the tumor border
during neurosurgery. A custom-built Mueller polarimeter was used in reflection configuration …

Mueller matrix decomposition methods for tissue polarization tomography

W Gao - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Unlike optical elements, medium such as tissue usually has several polarization properties
simultaneously. So it is desirable to identify the existence of types of optical behaviors and …

Revealing architectural order with quantitative label-free imaging and deep learning

SM Guo, LH Yeh, J Folkesson, IE Ivanov, AP Krishnan… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
We report quantitative label-free imaging with phase and polarization (QLIPP) for
simultaneous measurement of density, anisotropy, and orientation of structures in unlabeled …

Multiscale label-free imaging of myelin in human brain tissue with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and birefringence microscopy

N Blanke, S Chang, A Novoseltseva… - Biomedical Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The combination of polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) and
birefringence microscopy (BRM) enables multiscale assessment of myelinated axons in …

Multi-resolution X-ray phase-contrast and dark-field tomography of human cerebellum with near-field speckles

S Savatović, MC Zdora, F De Marco, C Bikis… - Biomedical Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this study, we use synchrotron-based multi-modal X-ray tomography to examine human
cerebellar tissue in three dimensions at two levels of spatial resolution (2.3 µm and 11.9 …

Diattenuation Imaging reveals different brain tissue properties

M Menzel, M Axer, K Amunts, H De Raedt… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
When transmitting polarised light through histological brain sections, different types of
diattenuation (polarisation-dependent attenuation of light) can be observed: In some brain …

Evaluating backscattering polarized light imaging microstructural mapping capabilities through neural tissue and analogous phantom imaging

J Bonaventura, K Morara, R Carlson… - Journal of …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Knowledge of fiber microstructure and orientation in the brain is critical for
many applications. Polarized light imaging (PLI) has been shown to have potential for better …

Mueller matrix polarization parameter tomographic imaging method in the backscattering configuration

Y Chang, W Gao - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
A Mueller matrix polarization parameter tomographic imaging (MMPPTI) in backscattering
configuration for generating the depth-resolved cross sectional images of the polarization …

Linear diattenuation imaging of biological tissues with near infrared Mueller scanning microscopy

M Dubreuil, F Tissier, S Rivet… - Biomedical optics express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Among the multitude of optical polarization contrasts that can be observed in complex
biological specimens, linear diattenuation (LD) imaging has received little attention. It is …

How human is human connectional neuroanatomy?

RJ Rushmore, S Bouix, M Kubicki, Y Rathi… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The structure of the human brain has been studied extensively. Despite all the knowledge
accrued, direct information about connections, from origin to termination, in the human brain …