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 …

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 …

Polarized light interaction with tissues

VV Tuchin - Journal of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This tutorial-review introduces the fundamentals of polarized light interaction with biological
tissues and presents some of the recent key polarization optical methods that have made …

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 …

Mueller matrix microscope: a quantitative tool to facilitate detections and fibrosis scorings of liver cirrhosis and cancer tissues

Y Wang, H He, J Chang, C He, S Liu… - … of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Today the increasing cancer incidence rate is becoming one of the biggest threats to human
health. Among all types of cancers, liver cancer ranks in the top five in both frequency and …

Quantitatively characterizing the microstructural features of breast ductal carcinoma tissues in different progression stages by Mueller matrix microscope

Y Dong, J Qi, H He, C He, S Liu, J Wu… - Biomedical optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Polarization imaging has been recognized as a potentially powerful technique for probing
the microstructural information and optical properties of complex biological specimens …

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 …

Applications of Mueller matrix polarimetry to biological and agricultural diagnostics: A review

DN Ignatenko, AV Shkirin, YP Lobachevsky… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The review contains a systematization of the main approaches to the practical
implementation of Mueller matrix polarimetry and the prospects for its application in biology …

Tissue optics and photonics: Light-tissue interaction II

V Tuchin - J. Biomed. Photonics Eng, 2016 - cyberleninka.ru
This is the third part of the review-tutorial paper describing fundamentals of tissue optics and
photonics. The first part of the paper was mostly devoted to description of tissue structures …

Differentiating characteristic microstructural features of cancerous tissues using Mueller matrix microscope

Y Wang, H He, J Chang, N Zeng, S Liu, M Li, H Ma - Micron, 2015 - Elsevier
Polarized light imaging can provide rich microstructural information of samples, and has
been applied to the detections of various abnormal tissues. In this paper, we report a …