Polarimetry has a long and successful history in various forms of clear media. Driven by their
biomedical potential, the use of the polarimetric approaches for biological tissue assessment …

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 …

Polarization-based imaging can provide new diagnostic capabilities in clinical and
preclinical studies. Various methodologies of increasing complexity have been proposed by …

Propagation of light into scattering media is a complex problem that can be modeled using
statistical methods such as Monte Carlo. Few Monte Carlo programs have so far included …

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

Although noninvasive, continuous monitoring of glucose concentration in blood and tissues
is one of the most challenging areas in medicine, a wide range of optical techniques has …

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 …

A Monte Carlo method for photon transport has gained wide popularity in biomedical optics
for studying light behaviour in tissue. Nowadays, typical computation times range from a few …

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 …

We investigate the scattering and multiple scattering of a typical laser beam (λ= 800 nm) in
the intermediate scattering regime. The turbid media used in this work are homogeneous …