Surgical polarimetric endoscopy for the detection of laryngeal cancer

J Qi, T Tatla, E Nissanka-Jayasuriya, AY Yuan… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
The standard-of-care for the detection of laryngeal pathologies involves distinguishing
suspicious lesions from surrounding healthy tissue via contrasts in colour and texture …

Characterization of cervical tissue using Mueller matrix polarimetry

S Khan, M Qadir, A Khalid, S Ashraf, I Ahmad - Lasers in Medical Science, 2023 - Springer
The cervix is composed of layers of squamous epithelium and connective tissue. The main
component of the cervical connective tissue is collagen, which has specific orientations in …

Posterior scleral birefringence measured by triple-input polarization-sensitive imaging as a biomarker of myopia progression

X Liu, L Jiang, M Ke, IA Sigal, J Chua… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
In myopic eyes, pathological remodelling of collagen in the posterior sclera has mostly been
observed ex vivo. Here we report the development of triple-input polarization-sensitive …

Robustness of the wide-field imaging Mueller polarimetry for brain tissue differentiation and white matter fiber tract identification in a surgery-like environment: an ex …

L Felger, O Rodríguez-Núñez, R Gros… - Biomedical optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
During neurooncological surgery, the visual differentiation of healthy and diseased tissue is
often challenging. Wide-field imaging Muller polarimetry (IMP) is a promising technique for …

Polarimetric imaging for cervical pre-cancer screening aided by machine learning: ex vivo studies

D Robinson, K Hoong, WB Kleijn… - Journal of …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Wide-field imaging Mueller polarimetry is an optical imaging technique that has
great potential to become a reliable, fast, non-contact in vivo imaging modality for the early …

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 …

Zwitterion-doped liquid crystal speckle reducers for immersive displays and vectorial imaging

Y Jin, NP Spiller, C He, G Faulkner, MJ Booth… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Lasers possess many attractive features (eg, high brightness, narrow linewidth, well-defined
polarization) that make them the ideal illumination source for many different scientific and …

Can we still measure circular dichroism with circular dichroism spectrometers: The dangers of anisotropic artifacts

TJ Ugras, Y Yao, RD Robinson - Chirality, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral materials with strong linear anisotropies are difficult to accurately characterize with
circular dichroism (CD) because of artifactual contributions to their spectra from linear …

Quantitative polarization-sensitive super-resolution solid immersion microscopy reveals biological tissues' birefringence in the terahertz range

NV Chernomyrdin, DR Il'enkova, VA Zhelnov… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Terahertz (THz) technology offers a variety of applications in label-free medical diagnosis
and therapy, majority of which rely on the effective medium theory that assumes biological …

Nondestructive monitoring of annealing and chemical–mechanical planarization behavior using ellipsometry and deep learning

Q Sun, D Yang, T Liu, J Liu, S Wang, S Hu… - Microsystems & …, 2023 - nature.com
The Cu-filling process in through-silicon via (TSV-Cu) is a key technology for chip stacking
and three-dimensional vertical packaging. During this process, defects resulting from …