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 …

Nowadays, dynamically developing optical (photonic) technologies play an ever-increasing
role in medicine. Their adequate and effective implementation in diagnostics, surgery, and …

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 …

Layered topographic maps of the depolarisation due to diffuse biological tissues are
produced using a polarisation-holographic Mueller matrix method approach. Histological …

Significance Mueller-matrix polarimetry is a powerful method allowing for the visualization of
malformations in biological tissues and quantitative evaluation of alterations associated with …

This chapter explains the polarized light fundamentals and mathematical formulations of
polarized light and its propagation in biological tissues. It introduces the Stokes Mueller …

The decomposition of the Mueller matrix of blood films has been carried out using differential
matrices with polarized and depolarized parts. The use of a coherent reference wave is …

We introduce a method of azimuthally invariant 3D Mueller-matrix (MM) layer-by-layer
mapping of the phase and amplitude parameters of anisotropy of the partially depolarizing …

We introduce a Mueller-matrix imaging polarization-based approach for the quantitative
digital screening of the polycrystalline structure of fibrillary-based biological tissues in vitro …

Since recently, a number of innovative polarization-based optical imaging modalities have
been introduced and extensively used in various biomedical applications, with an ultimate …