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 …

Imaging in scattering media has been a challenging and important subject in optical
science. In scattering media, the image quality is often severely degraded by the scattering …

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 …

Vision in scattering media is important but challenging. Images suffer from poor visibility due
to backscattering and attenuation. Most prior methods for scene recovery use active …

This book introduces some of the recent key developments in polarization optical methods
that have made possible the quantitative studies of tissues and biological cells essential to …

Cancerous and healthy human colon samples have been analyzed ex-vivo using a
multispectral imaging Mueller polarimeter operated in the visible (from 500 to 700 nm) in a …

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

Colon samples with both healthy and cancerous regions have been imaged in diffuse light
and backscattering geometry by using a Mueller imaging polarimeter. The tumoral parts at …

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 …