Linear birefringence and optical activity are two common optical polarization effects present
in biological tissue, and determination of these properties has useful biomedical …

Nirmalya Ghosh, Michael Wood, and Alex Vitkin Ontario Cancer Institute/Department of
Medical Biophysics University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada9. 1 …

Development of methodologies for quantification/unique interpretation of the intrinsic
polarimetry characteristics of biological tissues are important for various applications …

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 …

Determination of the intrinsic polarization properties of a complex turbid medium such as
biological tissue in the backscattering geometry (a geometry that is convenient for in situ …

The influence of the multiplication order of the constituent basis matrices on the Mueller
matrix decomposition-derived polarization parameters in complex tissue-like turbid media …

Recently, with the emergence of new light sources, polarization devices, and detectors,
together with a prominent increase in data processing capability, polarization techniques …

For in vivo determination of optically active (chiral) substances in turbid media, like for
example glucose in human tissue, the backscattering geometry is particularly convenient …

The Mueller matrix represents the transfer function of an optical system in its interactions
with polarized light and its elements relate to specific biologically or clinically relevant …

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 …