Mueller polarimetric imaging for surgical and diagnostic applications: a review

J Qi, DS Elson - Journal of biophotonics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polarization is a fundamental property of light and a powerful sensing tool that has been
applied to many areas. A Mueller matrix is a complete mathematical description of the …

Is a complete Mueller matrix necessary in biomedical imaging?

T Novikova, JC Ramella-Roman - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The advent of imagers with integrated linear polarization selectivity opens new opportunities
for researchers interested in the polarization properties of biological tissues. In this Letter …

Narrow band 3× 3 Mueller polarimetric endoscopy

J Qi, M Ye, M Singh, NT Clancy… - Biomedical optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Mueller matrix polarimetric imaging has shown potential in tissue diagnosis but is
challenging to implement endoscopically. In this work, a narrow band 3× 3 Mueller matrix …

Polarized light imaging in biomedicine: emerging Mueller matrix methodologies for bulk tissue assessment

S Alali, A Vitkin - Journal of biomedical optics, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Polarized light point measurements and wide-field imaging have been studied for many
years in an effort to develop accurate and information-rich tissue diagnostic methods …

Development and calibration of an automated Mueller matrix polarization imaging system

JS Baba, JR Chung, AH DeLaughter… - … of biomedical optics, 2002 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The high fatality rate associated with the late detection of skin cancer makes early detection
crucial in preventing death. The current method for determining if a skin lesion is suspect to …

Polar decomposition of 3× 3 Mueller matrix: a tool for quantitative tissue polarimetry

MK Swami, S Manhas, P Buddhiwant, N Ghosh… - Optics express, 2006 - opg.optica.org
The polarization properties of any medium are completely described by the sixteen element
Mueller matrix that relates the polarization parameters of the light incident on the medium to …

A review of polarization-based imaging technologies for clinical and preclinical applications

JC Ramella-Roman, I Saytashev, M Piccini - Journal of Optics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Polarization-based imaging can provide new diagnostic capabilities in clinical and
preclinical studies. Various methodologies of increasing complexity have been proposed by …

Mueller matrix polarimetry—an emerging new tool for characterizing the microstructural feature of complex biological specimen

H He, R Liao, N Zeng, P Li, Z Chen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, with the emergence of new light sources, polarization devices, and detectors,
together with a prominent increase in data processing capability, polarization techniques …

Characterizing microstructures of cancerous tissues using multispectral transformed Mueller matrix polarization parameters

C He, H He, J Chang, Y Dong, S Liu, N Zeng… - Biomedical optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we take the transmission 3× 3 linear polarization Mueller matrix images of the
unstained thin slices of human cervical and thyroid cancer tissues, and analyze their …

Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review

C He, H He, J Chang, B Chen, H Ma… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Many polarisation techniques have been harnessed for decades in biological and clinical
research, each based upon measurement of the vectorial properties of light or the vectorial …